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THE 

STATE CAPITOL 



OF 



PENNSYLVANIA 




HARRISBURG 



Nineteen Hundred and Six 



THE lELEGRAPH PRINTING COMPANY 

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

MAY 10 1907 

Cwyrifht Entry 

yi:K<y /9// fob 

CLASS CL XXc. No. 

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COPY A. 



INTRODUCTION 

The publisher desires to make special acknowl- 
edgement of the important service rendered by a 
prominent historian and scholar in the preparation 
of this work. The historical and descriptive chap- 
ters were edited and compiled by L. 5. Shinimell, 
Ph. D., District Supervisor of Schools, Harrisburg, 
Pa., author of "The Pennsylvania Citizen," "A 
History of Pennsylvania," "Border Warfare in 
Pennsylvania During the Revolution," and "The 
Government of the United States;" also joint 
author of "Report on the Public Archives of Penn- 
sylvania." 

The research has been very thorough and many 
important and interesting facts regarding the loca- 
tion of the seat of government and building of the 
two Capitols have been uncovered. There is also 
embraced within these pages a full and complete 
account of the dedication ceremonies, embellished 
with fine half-tone engravings made especially for 
this publication. There are also portraits and 
biographies of leading State officials, members of 
Congress and the Legislature. 

This work has been compiled with great care and 
the Telegraph Printing Company of Harrisburg has 
given to the typographical and other features much 
attention. 

The Publisher. 



Copyright, 1907, by 

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING COMPANY 

HARRISBURG, PA. 



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PROEM 



rHERE may be room there for such a holy experiment. For the nations want a 
precedent. And my God will make it the seed of a nation. That an example 
may be set up to the nations. That we may do the thing that is truly wise and 
just." — William Penn, in a Letter to James Harrison, dated August 26, 168 1. 

What more remains to be accomplished of all our temporal wishes? JVhat more have 
we to sayf JVhat more can be said but go on and prosper, carry the spirit of your im- 
provements through till the sound of the hammer, the whip of the waggoner, the busy 
hum of man, the voices of innumerable children issuing from their places of instruction, 
the lofty spires of worship; till richly endowed colleges of education; till all those arts 
which embellish man shall gladden the banks of the Susquehanna and the Delaware, and 
exact from admiring strangers that cheerful and grateful tribute, "This is the work of a 
Pennsylvania Legislature"? — Rev. D. Mason, President of Dickinson College, in an 
Address made before the Legislature at its First Session in the Old Capitol, January 2, 
1822. 

And they brought great stones, costly stones and hezved stones, to lay the foundation of 
the house. — i Kings v, 17. 

Then spake Solomon. * * * j have surely built thee an house to dwell in a 
settled place for thee to abide in forever^ — l. Kings viii, 12-13. 

/ stood on one of the bridges that span the Susquehanna at Harrisburg. 

Below me the shallow waters of the broad river, overcoming the rocks in their course 
and speeding on to the sea, even as this great Commonwealth has overcome the barriers 
interposed by Nature and by men and sped on its upward march of progress and en- 
lightenment. 

Above, the Dome of domes — emblem of infinity and eternity — all flecked with flocks of 
clouds that seemed white sheep slow driven across its fenceless fields of blue by that 
great gold-haired shepherd of the skies. Declining to his couch, he wrapt the harvest 
world in one long, luminous embrace and jeweled every ripple in the stream. 

Rising from out the green forest athwart his beams, its white dome lifted like a head 
triumphant, its columned wings outstretched like giant arms in peaceful benediction, a 
temple faced me. 

High-set upon an hill, majestic, stately, it caught the sun's straight smiling and stood 
apart from all the nearby world. And I thought as I watched the shadows play along 

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its graceful length how here tvas reared in deathless form the dream of one long since 
laid down to take his dreamless sleep. 

I saw the good ship "U'elcome" brave the terrors of an almost nnknozvn sea, that this 
one might find a land where there was room for his "holy experiment." I saw him 
land to lay the foundation stones of liberty and. justice, upon ivhich our structure of free 
and enlightened government has been builded, at least in part. 

I saw the Pioneer give zvay to the Patriot; the Patriot to the People; and, upheld by 
huge human monoliths of Love, Labor, Lazv and Learning, I beheld a living structure 
built with great minds and spirits for stones, and soaring like this achievement ever 
higher and higher into the rimless realms of righteousness. 

For here before me, like the realization of some far vision such as Penn's, uprose a 
monument to the high and noble ideals whereon were set the pillars of this State and 
Nation — a temple, indeed, reared to the major forces of head and heart and hand, ivhich 
have been blent by a genius into this zvhite pile, whose golden apex signals "Upward 
Still!" — Leigh Mitchell Hodges, in the Philadelphia North American. 

In every crisis of our Government the attitude of Pennsylvania has been of crucial im- 
portance, as the affectionate name of "Keystone State" signifies. Pennsylvania has always 
looked before she leaped, and it was well that she should do so. But having finally made 
up her mind, in each great crisis of our national history, her weight has been cast unhesi- 
tatingly upon the right side, and has been found irresistible. This was true alike at the 
time of the Declaration of Independence, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution 
and during the terrible years when the issue was the preservation of the Union. 

Pennsylvania's soil is historic. It was within Pennsylvania's borders that the contest 
which was to decide whether the valiant soldiers of France would be able to bar this conti- 
nent against the domination of the people of the English-speaking colonies. It was on 
Pennsylvania's soil that the Declaration of Independence was signed and the constitutional 
convention held. It was in Pennsylvania that JVashington wintered at Valley Forge, and 
by keeping his army together during that winter definitely turned the scales in our favor 
in the contest for independence. It was again on Pennsylvania's soil, at Gettysburg, that 
the tide turned in the Civil War. In the composition of her people, moreover, Pennsylva- 
nia has epitomized the composition of our Union; for here many old world races have 
mingled their blood to make that new type, the American. Finally, in all branches of the 
public service, in peace and in war, the native or adopted citizens of Pennsylvania have 
attained the highest eminence. — From President Roosevelt's Address at the Dedication 
of the Capitol, October 4, 1906. 

'Nor have we forgotten that the thought of William Penn, enunciated more than two 
centuries ago and rezvritten around the dome of this Capitol, has become the fundamental 
principle of our national Constitution, acknozvledged now by all men as axiomatic truth. 
— Governor Pennypacker, in his Address accepting the Capitol, October 4, 1906. 



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PENNSYLVANIA'S EARLY CAPITOLS 



WHEN colonial governments were es- in Penn's province the year before, had made 

tabllshed in America, their first Upland his seat of government, administer- 

homes were not costly and im- ing the public affairs of the infant colony in 

posing structures of marble or granite. The that place. So when the first Assembly met 

Virginia House of Burgesses met in 1 6 19 in the little town, its Dutch and English in- 

in a plain church to pass its first measures habitants were not ahogether unaccustomed 

of government. The compact entered into ^^ having dignitaries of state in their midst, 

by the Pilgrims in 1620 was formed on Like themselves, most of the members of the 

board the Mayflower. Five days after the Assembly were tillers of the soil and would 

arrival of Wmthrop at Salem, he, with some ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^^1 entertainment; for all the 

others, set out through the woods to look ^^.^^^^^ ^^^^j^ ^^^^_^j ^^.^ ^^.^^ Assembly— 

out tor a convenient place for the chief town , .• ^, ,, r o 

r , T. , , ^ Ti /-I T 1 no election was necessary. 1 he call of Penn 

or the Massachusetts bay Colony. In the , i, , .,, ,, 

J , 1 J ^1 r r ^u was one or whosoever will may come, 

second year he took down the rrame ot the ,-,,-,,., , , 

■ 1-11 11 ^j^-NT^ Pennsylvania s hrst laws were made on the 

house which he had erected at JNewtown . .■' . 

(Cambridge) and set it up at Shawmut (Bos- pnnc.ple of a pure democracy. However, 

ton.) The general court met there October ^he members of the Assembly had no power 

19, 1630, "for the establishinge of the gov- of initiation and no privilege of debate. The 

ernment." ^'^^^ were presented to them and approved or 

In our own colony the very first act of gov- rejected by them with a plain "yes" or "no." 
ernment was performed in the Dutch court The session lasted three days. Penn pre- 
house at New Castle, Delaware, the day fol- sented the laws agreed upon in England be- 
lowing Penn's landing there, October 27, tween him and the colonists that had come 
1682. He took legal possession of the coun- over in 1681, and ninety other laws. Sixty- 
try that had been granted to him and as- one of the latter were embodied in the "great 
sured the inhabitants of religious and civil law or body of laws of the province of Penn- 
liberty. Two days later, he went to Upland, sylvania." The "Great Law" allowed free- 
a Dutch town within the borders of Pennsyl- dom of worship to all that acknowledged one 
vania, changed its name to Chester, and God, and all officers of the government, as 
called the first general assembly, or legisla- well as the voters, had to believe in Jesus 
ture, to meet there December 6th next. It is Christ as the son of God and the Savior of 
a question whether the house in which the the world. Swearing, cursing, lying, scold- 
first laws for Pennsylvania were passed, is ing, drunkenness, health-drinking and card- 
the one still pointed out or an old building playing were all prohibited in the Great Law. 
torn down in i860. Whichever it be, there The Dutch, Swedes, and foreigners of all de- 
is no probability that it was erected for the scriptions were naturalized at this session, 
special purpose of setting up the machinery • In February, 1683, Penn ordered an elec- 
of government in it. tion for members of the Provincial Council, 

Markham, the Deputy Governor, arriving and directed that when the Council should 

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meet at Philadelphia, the General Assembly, 
consisting again of all the freemen, should 
meet there too. At this second session, there- 
fore, the legislative department was bi-cam- 
eral. The Provincial Council was to orig- 
inate bills and submit them to the Assembly 
for approval or rejection. It may be inferred 
that the lawmakers now had two rooms at 



numbering fifty-four at least had to be pro- 
vided with a building in which to transact 
business. 

The second session, which met in March, 
1683, is known to have been held in a tem- 
porary meeting house in Penn's "City of 
Brotherly Love." But subsequently the 
"Capitol" was removed to the old Bank 




CAPITOL PARK. 



least, or one large room. The "Frame of 
Government," or the Constitution drawn up 
by Penn in England, which was ratified at 
this second session of the Assembly, provided 
for at least three Councilmen from each of 
the counties in Pennsylvania and Delaware 
respectively, or eighteen altogether, and six 
Assemblymen, or thirty-six altogether — a 
total of fifty-four in both bodies. Accord- 
ingly, after the second session and until 1701, 
when the General Assembly alone was made 
the lawmaking body, two sets of lawmakers 



Meeting House, in Front street above Arch, 
which was finished the following year. For 
ten years the great Friends' Meeting House 
was the scene of annual Assemblies. Then, 
for a long period, the Legislature was con- 
vened in the dwellings of some of the more 
opulent Philadelphians. After five years of 
wandering around in this way the supply of 
opulent Philadelphians was exhausted, and 
the Assembly had to fall back upon a school- 
master named Makin. Makin had been 



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elected clerk of the body, and was paid 
twenty shillings a session rent for the use of 
his schoolrooms. 

Tempted by the munificence of the offer, 
Makin made a bargain with the Legislature. 
Then his pupils began to desert him, and he 
complained to the Assembly that their ses- 
sions were too long. So they increased 
Makin's compensation for rent to £4. a ses- 
sion. How long the Legislature continued 



to make Makin's school the Capitol is not 
known, but in 1728 the Assembly met in the 
house of Captain Anthony Morris, on Sec- 
ond street below Walnut. In the meantime, 
however, several sessions were held in the 
Slate Roof House, Second street above Wal- 
nut, and in the county court house, erected in 
1709, in the middle of Market street at Sec- 
ond street, where also the Supreme Court 
held its sessions. 




OLD ST.'iTE CAPITOL. 



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PENNSYLVANIA'S FIRST PERMANENT CAPITOL 



WHEN it became apparent, after in." This- was the first step in the building 

Pennsylvania's government had of the State Ilouse of Pennsylvania, which 

been going about on wheels for has since become known all over the world as 

forty-seven years, that such temporary ar- Independence Hall. The treasury of the 



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MAIN ENTRANCE AND DOME. 

rangements were no longer tolerable, the As- province was evidently at low tide, else it 

sembly, May i, 1729, made an appropria- would not have been necessary to resort to a 

tion of 2,000 pounds, inserted as an item loan in the form of paper money. The first 

in a paper-money bill for the issue of 30,- "Capitol Commission" consisted of Speaker 

000 pounds, for the building of a "house Andrew Hamilton, and Thomas Lawrence 

for the Assembly of this Province to meet and Dr. John Kearsley, all members of the 

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Assembly. The lots on Chestnut street 
between Fifth and Sixth were ordered to be 
purchased by Andrew Hamilton and Wil- 
liam Allen. This they did but neglected to 
convey their individual titles to the Capitol 
Commission. So after their death, the As- 
sembly in 1762, passed an act making over 
the title to the trustees, or successors of the 
Commission. New trustees were appointed 
as the old ones died and as soon as the State 
declared its independence from Great Bri- 
tain, the property was considered as vested in 
the Commonwealth. The ground south of 
the State House was "to be enclosed and re- 
main a public green and walk forever." 
Hence the State House yard. 

But there were more serious difficulties en- 
countered in connection with the first capitol 
than that of the title to the land. Speaker 
Hamilton and Dr. Kearsley were both archi- 
tects, the latter having been the proud de- 
signer of Christ Church. Both submitted 
plans for the State House. Hamilton's were 
accepted. Then Dr. Kearsley became an ob- 
structor and supported by Lawrence, he 



found fault with the plans as adopted, as- 
serted that the building was not standing on 
the site selected by the Assembly, and 
brought charges of running the Province 
"into a much greater charge than necessary." 
A strike of the carpenters added to the per- 
plexities of Hamilton; but sustained by the 
Assembly, he pushed the work forward 
slowly and satisfactorily, without the assist- 
ance of his colleagues on the Commission. 
The Assembly first occupied the State House 
in 1735 — six years after the act authorizing 
its erection had been passed. The accounts 
of the commissioners were audited in 1738. 
It appears from those accounts that the cost 
of the building up to that time was about 
$29,000, or nearly three times as much as the 
first instalment voted by the State. Nor was 
it finished. 

For nine years after operations had been 
begun in 1732, the work upon the structure 
was not completed. In 1741, the room now 
known as Independence Hall was not yet 
plastered. Two years later, the other room 
on the first floor was ordered to be finished, 



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as well as the court room, and the piazzas 
connecting with the square two-story offices 
adjoining. It is supposed that the final 
touches were put on the State House in 1 744, 
fifteen years after the passage of the act au- 
thorizing the building of It. On the sides, at 



dered that "a building should be erected on 
the south side of the State House to contain 
a stair-case, with suitable place for hanging 
a bell." The building was a tower, and 
when the plan was adopted a wooden steeple 
was added. In 175 i, this addition of tower 




BROiNZE DOORS MAIN ENTRANCJi. 



Fifth and Sixth streets respectively, low 
wooden sheds were put up, in which to enter- 
tain the numerous Indian deputations. Such 
appendages to a State capitol are no longer 
needed. Father Penn long ago transferred 
the wardship of the Indians to Uncle Sam. 

The steeple on the State House was an 
after-thought. In 1750, the Assembly or- 



and steeple must have been well advanced; 
for the bell was then ordered. The one used 
before, had likely been brought over by Penn. 
It had hung on a small belfry in front of the 
building in which the Assembly met. Mem- 
bers not present within half an hour after the 
bell had rung were to pay "a tcnpenny bit." 
The bell which was ordered in 175 1 and 



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which has come to be known as the Liberty 
Bell, was originally made in London. It 
was twice recast here on account of a crack it 
received when "hung up to try the sound." 
It was then that the following words were 
cast round the bell : 

"Proclaim Liberty Throughout the 
Land, unto All the Inhabitants 
Thereof." Leviticus xxv, lo. 

It was again cracked in 1835, while being 
tolled In memory of Chief Justice Marshall 
and it now hangs over the hallway of the old 
State House. 

Pennsylvania may well be proud of its first 
Capitol for it is known wherever the lessons 



of liberty have been taught. Its walls re- 
sound with the echoes of past deliverances on 
liberty. In 1774 a congress of the colonies 
was recommended there to inaugurate the 
Revolution; in 1775 the second Continental 
Congress met there and remained there ex- 
cept for a brief period, until 1783; in 1776, 
the Declaration of Independence was passed 
there; in 1778, the Articles of Confederation 
were signed there; in 1787 the Constitution 
was made there; and from 1790 to 1800 in 
buildings adjoining, the Federal Government 
had its home there. Uncle Sam can never 
repay Father Penn for all his hospitality 
under the roof of the State House. 




PUBLIC RECEPTION ROOM MAIN ENTRANCE. 



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"Peace." "War. 

SCULPTURED GROUP MAIN ENTRANCE. 



THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL TO LANCASTER 



THE agitation for the removal of the 
capital from Philadelphia began in 
1784. As soon as the independence 
of the United States had become a settled 
fact by the treaty of peace in 1783, the peo- 
ple gave their attention to the development of 
the country. They turned their faces west- 
ward. Life on the frontier was safer now 
that treaties had been made by the United 
States with the Indians who had sided with 
England. Land companies were formed to 
buy and sell the public lands that had come 
into the undisputed possession of the State 
by the issues of the war. Roads and canals 
running out west into these newly-acquired 
lands were projected. New counties were 
organized west of the mountains. The popu- 
lation there increased by emigration from the 
eastern counties and from New England, 
New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. Li 
other words, the center of population was 



moving westward very rapidly after the Rev- 
olution. It may be that the unfortunate dis- 
turbance of the peace in Philadelphia by the 
Revolutionary soldiers, in June, 1783, de- 
manding satisfaction from Congress and the 
Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania 
for unpaid services, had something to do with 
the agitation in the following year for the 
removal of the seat of the State government. 
We know that Congress felt so grossly in- 
sulted and was so panic-stricken, that it re- 
moved to Princeton, then to Annapolis, and 
finally to New York. 

Be that as it may we know for a fact that 
the agitation for the removal received its im- 
petus chiefly from the flow of population to 
the westward. In August, 1783, the Legis- 
lature appointed a committee on roads, 
canals, and internal navigation. It reported 
that the easiest way to conduct the streams of 
commerce from the Susquehanna to Philadel- 



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phia was by navigation of the Schuylkill to 
Reading and thence to the Susquehanna by 
durable roads. It was said, too, in the re- 
port that the establishment of a town or of 
towns on the east side of the Susquehanna 
would "be attended with great advantages to 
the trade of Philadelphia, as every inhabitant 
of such town or towns would in some degree 
be a factor for the Philadelphia market." 
Upon the recommendation of this committee. 



and jail, and a square of four acres of 
ground to the State for such purposes as the 
State might determine. The report spoke of 
the situation as "high, airy, healthy and 
pleasant; the soil rich, and water whole- 
some; there is clay for brick, stone for build- 
ing, and fuel in the greatest abundance," etc. 
With the acceptance of this proposal the 
town of Harrisburg had its beginning. A 
new county was also authorized to be laid out. 




ceace. ly ar. 

SCULPTURED GROUP MAIN ENTRANCE. 



a commission was appointed to consider the 
best route, estimate the cost, and receive pro- 
posals from persons willing to offer lands for 
the building of a town on the Susquehanna. 
On this commission was, with two others, 
David Rittenhouse, the great astronomer, 
philosopher and statesman. 

These commissioners reported to the Leg- 
islature in 1784 that an offer had been made 
by John Harris, of Harris Ferry, to lay out 
a town of 200 lots of a quarter acre each; 
that he would convey a lot for a court house 



Its county seat was to be the town of Harris. 
When in 1785, the county was formed under 
the name of Dauphin, the seat of justice was 
fixed at Harris's Ferry; but the name Louis- 
burg was given to it "for the sake of eu- 
phony," in honor of the French King Louis 
XVI, by the Supreme Executive Council of 
the State. This injustice to Harris was 
remedied when the town was incorporated as 
a borough, 1791. 

In view of the fact that John Harris had 
made an offer of land for State purposes, an 



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ELEVATOR MAIN ENTRANCE. 



attempt was made the same year, to hold the 
next session of the Legislature in Lancaster, 
but the motion was defeated. Li 1789, the 
Assembly resolved that Philadelphia was "an 
unfortunate location" and that the capital 
should be at Harrisburg, on a plot of ground, 
the property of the State, etc., being four and 
a half acres, conveyed by John Harris in 
1785, but no bill was passed to that effect. 
Soon afterwards other interior towns made 
a bid for it; but Lancaster and Harrisburg 
were the favorites. In 1795, the House 
chose Carlisle, but the Senate would not 
agree. The next year, Lancaster was se- 
lected by the House in preference to Car- 
lisle or Reading; but the Senate again dis- 
sented. In 1798, Harrisburg and Wright's 
Ferry were voted for, but without any agree- 
ment. The following April, Lancaster was 
selected to be the capital city after the first 
Monday of November, 1799. 



The resolution which set the ball a rolling 
in 1799, was introduced by Richard Martin, 
of Lycoming county, seconded by Jacob 
Strickler, of Lancaster county. It declared 
that the increase of the population rendered 
it necessary that the seat of government 
should be removed from Philadelphia, and 
fixed somewhere near the centre of the popu- 
lation of the State, "and more especially as of 
late a disease called the yellow fever had 
raged at particular periods, so as to render it 
dangerous for the members of the Legisla- 
ture to meet." Strong efforts were made to 
amend the bill so as to remove the capital to 
Harrisburg at once and finally, but without 
avail. 

The government was to be removed to 
Lancaster by the first Tuesday of November, 
1799, and was to remain there "until the per- 
manent seat of the government shall be here- 
after established." Three thousand dollars 



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was appropriated for the removal. The capital of Pennsylvania. The following 
Legislature met in the court house of Lan- year, 1800, the Federal Capital, too, was re- 
caster county, beginning its first session there moved, and the metropolis of the State was 
December 3, 1799. After one hundred and no longer the Mecca for statesmen and poli- 
sixteen years, Philadelphia ceased to be the ticians as of yore. 




GRAND STAIRCASE — MAIN ENTRANCE. 



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HARRISBURG MADE THE PERMANENT CAPITAL 



LANCASTER was not a satisfactory 
place for the capital. In the discus- 
sion on a bill to remove it to some 
other town, a Mr. Dorsey said that he didn't 



already had buildings large enough to hold 
the departments of the government. As Phil- 
adelphia could not land the prize, he was in 
favor of any other town except Lancaster. 




GRAND STAIRCASE AND ENTRESOL. 



believe that Philadelphia could muster 
enough votes in the Legislature, although he 
personally favored the metropolis because 
William Penn's town was the only one that 



As an extreme concession he said he would 
even favor Pittsburg. 

The agitation to locate the seat of govern- 
ment permanently in some other place, began 



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within two years after its removal to Lancas- 
ter. The conviction had now become quite 
general that the Susquehanna Valley was the 
most desirable place in the State. The ques- 
tion was accordingly tried December 9, 1801, 
a few days after the meeting of the Legisla- 
ture. The following extracts from the jour- 
nal of the House give an account of what 
occurred then : 

"Lancaster, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1801. 

"A motion was made by Stacy Potts, of Dauphin 
County, seconded by Mr. Lord Butler, of Luzerne, 
and read as follows, viz : 

"As the happiness and convenience of the citizens 
of this Commonwealth, and the preservation and 
security of their prosperity, are the primary and im- 
portant objects of legislative deliberations, it be- 
comes our duty to consider the propriety of placing 
the officers attached to the government thereof in 
such a situation as will permit their procuring for 
themselves residences with convenient accommo- 
dations during the time they may continue in office. 



without subjecting them to the caprice of others; 
and the immense property held under the records 
of the State, at least in as secure a situation as the 
less important records of the different counties; 
therefore 

"Resolved, That a grand committee be appointed 
to take these important objects into consideration, 
and report the most eligible place to fix the perma- 
nent seat of government of this State, with such 
other further observations as the case may require. 

"Ordered to lie on the table. 

"On motion, Ordered, That Tuesday next be 
assigned for the second reading of the said resolu- 
tion, and that it be the order for that day. 

"Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1801. 

"The motions of Mr. Potts, seconded by Mr. 

Butler, and read the gth inst., relative to fixing 

the permanent seat of government was read the 

second time. 

"And the same being under consideration, 
"Ordered, That Thursday, January 7, next be 

assigned for the further consideration thereof, and 

that it be the order for that day. 









MAIN BALCONY OF ROTUNDA. 



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CEILING OF DOME ROTUNDA. 



"Thursday, Jan. 7, 1802. 

"Agreeably to the order of the day the House 
resumed the consideration of the resolution relative 
to the permanent seat of government, and 

"On motion, Ordered, That Wednesday, the 
13th inst., be assigned for the further consideration 
thereof, and that it be the order for that day. 

"Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1802. 

"Agreeably to the order of the day, the House 
resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. 
Isaac Wayne, of Chester, in the chair, with resolu- 
tion relative to the permanent seat of government 
before it. 

"And after some time 

"The Speaker resumed the chair, and the chair- 
man reported that the committee of the whole had 
negatived the resolution ; and 

"On the question, 'Will the House agree to the 
report?' 

"The yeas and nays were called for by Mr. (af- 
terwards Governor) Snyder and Mr. Painter, of 
Philadelphia, and were as follows, viz: 



"Yeas — Messrs. W. Anderson, J. Anderson, Bar- 
nett, Boileau, Brodhead, Bull, Butler, Cooke, Con- 
rad, Davis, Eichelberger, Engle, Folwell, Good- 
man, Gordon, Hiester, Holgate, Ingels, Kauffman, 
Kimmel, McDowell (Chester), McElroy, J. Mil- 
ler, A. Miller, Mohler, Neuhardt, Odenheimer, 
Penrose, Preston, Pugh, Rea, Roberts, Slagle, J. 
Smith, B. H. Smith, Statler, Steele, Thornburg, 
Trevor, Wayne, Wetherill, Wilson (Northampton 
and Wayne) — 42. 

"Nays — Messrs. Alexander, Alter, Beale, Blair, 
Brady, Bratton, Buchannan, Cunningham, Dale, 
Ewalt, Fergeson, FoUmer, Franklin, Gibbons, Hall, 
Helman, Kerr (Washington), Kerr (Hunting- 
don), Laycock, Lyle, McDowell (Washington), 
Mitchel, McMasters, John Moore, Jesse Moore, 
Montgomery, Painter, R. Porter, C. Porter, Potts, 
Rose, Simpson, F. Smith, Snyder, Udree, Urie Wil- 
son (Dauphin), W. Wilson, Witman, Weaver, 
Speaker — 4 1 . 

"So it was determined in the affirmative." 

The House having refused to consider the 
question of removal by a majority of one 



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only, its friends were not crushed to earth by 
any means, as the following letter indicates: 

"Lancaster, Jan'r 19th, 1802. 

"Friend Boyd: At thy request of the 2d In- 
stant, I presented thy Vouchers. 

"You will undoubtedly feel with me, the morti- 
fication of finding the turn our expected removal of 
the Seat of Government has taken. However, al- 



tal in aid of the present deranged finances of the 
Commonwealth, on which a committee has been 
appointed and from their completion I have great 
hopes of a favorable report. 

"If that measure can be successfully accomplished 
the greatest obstacle in our way will be removed. 
However, it has already raised the hornet's nest, 
and there is as great a buzzing alarm as my resolu- 
tion occasioned on the gth of last month. Our 
Philadelphia gentlemen would insinuate that it 




MAIN ENTRANCE ROTUNDA. 



tho' very sensibly chagrined by that measure, yet 
shall not despair, altho' it may be some time before 
so great an object can be accomplished. I hope the 
work is yet upon the wheel, and all things will yet 
work together for good ; and if the fixing our per- 
manent Seat of Government seems at present out 
of sight, there is a preliminary motion on the way, 
which, if carried, I shall think a good point gained 
toward forwarding the grand object. For yester- 
day a motion was made, to appoint a committee to 
enquire and report the propriety of converting all 
the property of this State, consisting of houses and 
lots in the city of Philadelphia, into an active capi- 

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would be as great sacrilege to sell the old State- 
House and its appurtenances in Philadelphia as the 
aristocrats would persuade us at the city of Wash- 
ington, it will be to repeal the judiciary system 
created by the last Congress in the last night of 
their existence. 

"But however terrible the iniquitous act may be 
estimated by those scrupulous gentlemen at both 
places, I hope and firmly believe both will be ac- 
complished. And while this is maturing in our 
House, I hope they will not continue quite indolent 
in the Senate, and perhaps by the time they are 
ready to produce anything to our House we may 

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not have so many of our members looking back 
towards the old State-House in Philadelphia. Then 
we may hope for two votes at least for every one 
of those which we had counted on that deserted us 
in the late discussion. 

"However, as I have written last evening to 
William Maclay and Thomas Elder a pretty cir- 
cumstantial account of the manner we were out- 
generaled by the finesse of the sophistical gentlemen 
of our eastern counties, the subject seems to be so 



wealth certain lands in the borough for the 
permanent seat of government. Their 
offer was laid on the table. The friends of 
removal then tried a new scheme. They pro- 
posed to erect a structure for "the safe pres- 
ervation of State papers." This brought 
the question of removal before the Legisla- 
ture in disguise. Those opposed to removal 
saw the trap set for them and succeeded in 




'Spring." 



"Sur. 



SOUTH CORRIDOR. 



much exhausted that without going again over the 
same ground I must wait for further occurrences, 
when I may be able to give you some further ac- 
count which may be interesting enough to be worth 
communicating. From thy friend, 

"Stacy Potts. 
"To Adam Boyd." 

Lancaster was evidently determined to 
talce advantage of the foregoing vote not to 
consider the removal of the capital. A 
month afterwards, some of her enterprising 
citizens offered to convey to the Common- 



avoiding being caught In it. The debate on 
this new proposition extended from the open- 
ing of the session in December, 1802, to the 
close of January, 1803, when It was decided 
to postpone the matter. 

Harrlsburg and Dauphin county in general 
were now so deeply interested In getting the 
prize, that In the Legislature which met In 
December, 1803, Harrlsburg was allowed to 
send to the Legislature two of the three mem- 
bers from the county, Messrs. Maclay and 
Bucher. But these men could not accomplish 



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the thing so much desired by their constitu- 
ents. The matter of removal fell asleep and 
for a number of years Lancaster remained in 
undisputed possession of the capital. It was 
the people of Northumberland that sprung 
the question anew early in January, 1809. 
They sent a petition to the Senate, stating 
what a fine place their town would be for the 
State capital, and asking for its removal 



prepare and report a bill to fix the permanent seat 

of government at , in the county of , 

and provide for erecting thereat suitable buildings 
for the accommodation of the Legislature, and the 
several offices attached thereto, before the first Tues- 
day in December, 18. .." 

The committee reported by filling the 
blanks in the resolution with "Northumber- 
land, in the county of Northumberland." 




'Autu 



Winter.' 



NORTH CORRIDOR. 



thither. The following preamble and resolu- 
tion was immediately presented to the Senate 
and referred to a special committee : 

"Whereas, The books, records, and documents 
belonging to the different departments of the gov- 
ernment of this Commonwealth, particularly those 
of the land office, are in want of suitable buildings 
for their safe keeping, greatly exposed to dangerous 
accidents by fire and otherwise, for a remedy 
whereof, — 

"Resolved, That a committee be appointed to 



The Senate struck out these words and left 
the question statu quo ante. However, the 
agitation would not down, as may be seen 
from the following extracts from the journal 
of the Senate : 

On February 17, 1 809, in the committee of the 
ivhole, in the Senate, Mr. Sommer moved to fill the 
blank with the words "city of Philadelphia." 

Mr. Sommer was as far removed from being in- 
fluenced by any local interest as any member of the 
Senate. He wished to fix the seat of government 



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SOUTH CORRIDOR. 



permanentl)' where it would most conduce to the 
interests of the people, and he believed Philadelphia 
to be that place. Wherever the seat of government 
is, to that place trade will in some measure be di- 
rected ; and it is the interest of the State to secure 
the trade of her metropolis. 

Mr. Dorsey said that there were already build- 
ings in Philadelphia sufficient for all the offices of 
government and for the Legislature. This was not 
the case elsewhere. If they removed to any other 
place, much expense would be incurred in erecting 
these buildings. He had many other reasons for 
voting for Philadelphia; but, under the belief that 
the seat of government would not be fixed there, he 
would not take up the time of the Senate in men- 
tioning them. Any other place than Lancaster, 
however, would be cordially voted for by him. He 
would even vote for Pittsburgh. 

The motion to fill the blank with the word "Phil- 
adelphia" was lost — only eight yeas voting in favor 
of the same. 

Mr. Laird moved to fill the blank with the words 
"town of Northumberland, in the county of North- 
umberland." 

Mr. Burrows said: "This question was the first 



of importance to Pennsylvania ; it was important 
to the State to concentrate her whole interest in 
fixing the permanent seat of government. And how 
is this to be done but by fixing upon as central a 
place as can be found." He confessed that, for this 
purpose, Harrisburg was next to Northumberland ; 
but then Harrisburg was but twenty miles from 
the southern boundary of the State, and Northum- 
berland was eighty. And (said Mr. Burrows) are 
we to fix it at Harrisburg, and make the people come 
over the mountains with knapsacks on their backs, 
only that the rich at this end of the State may have 
an opportunity of riding to the seat of government 
in their coaches? 

Mr. Irish observed that he had lately examined 
all the situations from the mountains above Har- 
risburg down to Columbia, and he thought the most 
suitable place was near Middletown. That place, 
he said, was best to divert the trade to Philadelphia; 
a canal was contemplated which would afford water 
carriage for produce to the city of Philadelphia from 
Middletown. The situation at Harrisburg was very 
pleasant and handsome, but it was not so eligible for 
the purpose of intercepting the trade and preventing 
its going to Baltimore. He thought a committee 



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should be appointed to examine the situations on the 
Susquehanna, and make a report to the next Leg- 
islature. 

The question was then taken on filling the blank 
with the words "the town of Northumberland, in 
the county of Northumberland," and lost — seven 
only rising in favor of it. 

Mr. Lane then moved to fill the blanks with the 
words "borough of Harrisburg, in the county of 
Dauphin;" which was agreed to — 14 to 10. 

The resolution attached to the report was 
adopted ; when the committee rose and the Speaker 
took the chair. 

The Senate proceeded to consider the report. 

Mr. Weaver moved to postpone the report for the 
purpose of introducing a substitute, which con- 
templated the purchase by the State of one hundred 
and fifty acres of land, the property of Abraham 
Huey, a short distance above Harrisburg. 



This (with the motion to postpone) was opposed 

by Burrows and Dorsey, on the ground that this 
land was to be purchased for the purpose of specu- 
lation, and that it was disgraceful for the Legisla- 
ture to enter into it. Neither, they said, did this 
tract of land adjoin Harrisburg. 

The report was postponed and the substitute in- 
troduced. 

Mr. Sommer moved to strike out that part of the 
substitute which authorized the purchase by the 
State of one hundred and fifty acres of land from 
Abraham Huey. Carried — yeas 13, nays 9. 

The part appropriating money for the erection of 
public buildings, &c., was also stricken out. 

Mr. Roberts moved that the blanks in the resolu- 
tion attached to the substituted report be filled up 
with the words "first of November," which was 
agreed to ; and the substitute as amended was 
carried. 




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A bill to locate the capital at Harrisburg 
was offered in the Senate soon after, but final 
action on it postponed. The House took no 
action on the question that session. On Feb- 
ruary 21, 1810, a bill with Harrisburg as 
the capital was signed by Governor Simon 
Snyder. But before this was accomplished, 



cess to Philadelphia and central location with 
respect to the State at large, likewise won 
votes for Harrisburg. And now John Har- 
ris's prophecy, made fifty years before, was 
fulfilled, namely, "The seat of government 
of Pennsylvania will some day be located 




ENTRIiSOL DOOR — ROTUNDA. 



Lancaster, Northumberland, Bellefonte, Co- 
lumbia, Carlisle, Reading and Sunbury were 
voted on. Harrisburg was selected because 
the Susquehanna was a great waterway for 
the produce of the State to be transported to 
market. It was held that the commercial ad- 
vantages of the town would induce merchants 
and manufacturers to locate there. Easy ac- 



here, and there's the spot where the public 
buildings will be erected," pointing to what 
is now Capitol Hill. Furthermore, it used to 
be said that Penn himself Intended to locate 
the capital of his province on the Susque- 
hanna. 



The following is a synopsis of the bill lo- 
cating the capital at Harrisburg: 



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An act establishing the seat of government of the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, 
in the county of Dauphin. 

Section i. Be it enacted, i^c.. That within the 
month of October, 1812, all the offices attached to 
the seat of government of this State shall be removed 
to the borough of Harrisburg, in the county of 
Dauphin, by their respective holders, and, shall after 
that period cease to be exercised elsewhere ; at which 
said borough of Harrisburg the session of Legisla- 
ture thereafter, as well as all future sessions, shall 
be held ; and the said borough of Harrisburg is 
hereby fixed and declared to be the seat of govern- 
ment of the Commonwealth. 



apartments for convenient accommodations for the 
Legislature, and also for the receiving, opening and 
depositing of the said books, records, papers and 
other documents, and conducting and transacting 
the business of the offices aforesaid, respectively; 
and in case the resignation of any of the aforesaid 
officers, or of their or any of their neglect and re- 
fusal or incapacity to attend to the business of the 
aforesaid, then it shall be and may be lawful for the 
said commissioners, or a majority of them, to pro- 
ceed therein as if the said officers were attending. 

Section 4. That the Governor be, and he is 
hereby authorized and required, on behalf and in 




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Section 2. (Directs the Secretary of the Com- 
monwealth, State Treasurer, Auditor General, Sec- 
retary of the Land Office, and Surveyor General, 
the clerks of both Houses of the Legislature, and all 
officers whose official duties are attached to the seat 
of government, to remove, or cause to be removed, 
all books, records, papers, &c., to the said offices re- 
spectively, or to the State generally to the borough 
of Harrisburg, in the manner provided in this act.) 

Section 3. That Robert Harris, George Hoyer, 
and George Sigler shall be, and they are hereby 
appointed commissioners, who, together with the 
respective officers aforesaid, shall superintend and 
direct the removal of the books, records, papers and 
other articles aforesaid, and shall provide at the bor- 
ough of Harrisburg good and suitable rooms and 



the name of this Commonwealth, to accept of the 
offer of ten acres of land in or adjoining the said 
borough of Harrisburg, at $100 per acre, made by 
William Maclay, adjoining to the four acre lot 
formerly appropriated by John Harris, for the use 
of the State ; and to pay for the same and receive 
sufficient conveyances and assurances in fees simple 
therefor, to be recorded in the office for recording 
of deeds in the county of Dauphin aforesaid. 

Section 5. (Appropriates three thousand dollars 
($3,000) for the purpose of making the aforesaid 
purchase and discharging the expense of removal, to 
be paid in advance — $2,000 to the said commis- 
sioners, and $1,000 for the said purchase.) 

Section 6. (Appropriates the further sum of 
$30,000 for the purpose of erecting the offices at the 



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SUPREME COURT CHAMBER. 



seat of government, to wit : one for the Secretary 
of the Commonwealth, one for the Secretary of the 
Land Office, one for the Surveyor General, one for 
the Auditor General, one for the Treasurer, and one 
for any purpose to which it may hereafter be ap- 
plied, each of which shall be fireproof, for the safe- 
keeping of all the records and papers belonging to 
the said offices.) 

Section 7. That the Governor is hereby author- 
ized and required immediately after the passage of 
this act, to appoint, and by supplying vacancies hap- 
pening from refusals to act or cause, to keep in ap- 
pointment as long as may be necessary, three com- 
missioners, whose duty it shall be, immediately after 
their appointment, to fix upon a site in or on the 
four acre lot described in the fourth section of this 
act, or on the ten acre lot purchased from William 
Maclay, and procure one or more plan or plans on 
which the said offices are to be built, and after a 
place shall be agreed upon, according to the provi- 
sions, which hereinafter follow, it shall be their duty 
to contract for, direct and superintend the building 
and completing of the said offices. And it shall also 
be the duty of the said commissioners, as soon as they 
shall have ascertained the site for the said offices and 
procured one or more plans, to lay the said plan or 
plans before the Governor, Secretary of the Land 



Office, Surveyor General, Auditor General, and the 
Treasurer of the Commonwealth, who, together 
with the three commissioners aforesaid, shall each 
have one vote in order to decide on a plan for the 
offices of the aforesaid ; and such plan as shall a 
majority for the votes of aforesaid, shall, by the com- 
missioners aforesaid, be carried into execution. 

Section 8. (Directs that as soon as the plan shall 
be decided on, the commissioners shall give notice in 
two newspapers of Philadelphia, Lancaster, York, 
Carlisle, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Reading, for 
four weeks successfully, that proposals will be re- 
ceived by them until a certain day, by them to be 
fixed, from any person or persons who shall be 
willing to undertake the building of the offices afore- 
said : Provided, That every contract shall be made 
in writing, and that the parties contracting with the 
said commissioners give bonds with sufficient surety 
for the performance of their contracts.) 

Section 9. (Provides that the money appropri- 
ated for this purpose shall be paid by the Treasurer 
of the Commonwealth, on the order of any two of 
the said commissioners, who are required to keep 
strict accounts of their transactions, and to transmit 
an abstract thereof to the Governor once in every 
three months after their appointment.) 

Section 10. (Provides that the aforesaid com- 



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missioners, before entering upon their duties of their 
appointment, shall subscribe to an oath or affirma- 
tion that they will faithfully perform the duties en- 
joined upon them by this act ; and that each of the 
said commissioners shall receive for every day's 
attendance upon the duties herein enjoined upon 
them, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents, and 
that any two of them may do and perform any act 
or duty herein enjoined on the said commissioners.) 

Now that we have followed the capital of 
Pennsylvania from its first home in Chester 
to its final one at Harrisburg, it may be of 
interest to know that before Washington was 
selected for the capital of the United States, 
Harrisburg had some chance of becoming the 
home of Uncle Sam. It was likewise shortly 
after the close of the Revolutionary war (see 
p. 14) that thoughtful statesman began to 
feel the danger and Impracticability of "a 
government on wheels." So after the Fed- 
eral Constitution had gone Into effect, Con- 
gress took the matter of a permanent seat of 
government into consideration at its very first 
session, held in New York, 1789. It passed 



the following resolutions, which elicited some 
interesting discussion : 

Resolved, That a permanent seat for the Govern- 
ment of the United States ought to be fixed as near 
the centre of wealth, population and extent of ter- 
ritory as shall be consistent with the convenience of 
the Atlantic navigation, having also a due regard to 
the circumstances of the western country. 

Adopted. 

Mr. Goodhue observed that the members from 
the eastern and northern States had contemplated 
the same subject of a permanent seat of the Federal 
Government with deliberation. They had turned 
their eyes to different parts of the country, and had 
at last, after a mutual and full consultation, come 
to an agreement that the banks of the Susquehanna 
was as far south and as near the centre of the popu- 
lation and extent of territory as was consistent with 
other circumstances important to the country^ They 
felt disposed to be governed by principles of accom- 
modation, and were of the opinion that the banks of 
the Susquehanna ought to be chosen for the perma- 
nent residence of Congress. He concluded by read- 
ing a resolution to this effect. 

Mr. Hartly supported the resolution, and pointed 




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out Wright's Ferry as an eligible place for this 
purpose. 

Mr. Lee moved to amend by fixing the seat of 
Government on the Potomac instead of the Susque- 
hanna. Not agreed to — yeas 20, nays 31. 

Mr. Madison proposed to amend by leaving it 
discretional to be either on the Potomac or the Sus- 
quehanna. Not agreed to — yeas 20, nays 31. 

On a subsequent day, the House of Representa- 
tives, in committee of the whole, proceeded to con- 
sider the resolution of Mr. Goodhue, as follows: 



rected to borrow the sum of one hundred thousand 
dollars, to be repaid in twenty years, with five per 
cent, interest, for the purpose of erecting the neces- 
sary buildings on the banks of the Susquehanna. 

Mr. Fitzsimmons moved for the "appointment of 
Commissioners to examine and report upon the most 
eligible situation for the public buildings on the 
Susquehanna; that they be authorized, by and with 
the advice and consent of the President, to purchase 
such quantity of lands as may be thought neces- 
sary," &c. 




SENATE CHAMBER — PRESIDENT S ROSTRUM. 



"Resolved, In the opinion of this committee, that 
the permanent seat of Government of the United 
States ought to be at some convenient place on the 
east bank of the Susquehanna River, in the State of 
Pennsylvania," &c. 

Mr. Heister moved to insert after the words "Sus- 
quehanna River," the words "between Harrisburg 
and Middletown, inclusive." 

A lengthy and spirited debate occurred, partici- 
pated in by nearly all the principal members of the 
House ; those from northern and eastern States gen- 
erally favoring the amendment, and those from the 
south opposing it. The amendment was finally lost. 

Several other amendments were proposed and 
lost; and the original resolution was carried. 

In committee of the whole House next day it was 
resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury be di- 



Mr. Hartley said the State of Pennsylvania, both 
by its convention and Legislature, had made the 
cession of the jurisdiction of Congress over any dis- 
tricts of ten miles square in the State might be 
selected for the seat of Government. 

The resolution of Mr. Fitzsimmons, after being 
so amended as to make the acts of the Commissioners 
subject to the approval or rejection by the President, 
was adopted — j'eas 28, nays 21. 

The resolution went to the Senate, which body 
struck out all relating to the Susquehanna, and in- 
serted a clause fixing the permanent seat of Govern- 
ment at Germantown, Pa. 

The House first agreed to the clause, but refused 
to concur with some subsequent action of the Senate 
thereon; and pending further consideration of the 
subject, Congress adjourned sine die for that year. 



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THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL TO HARRISBURG 



THE first step towards the i-emoval of High street to Third street, and was origin- 

the seat of government from Lan- ally the property of the John Harris heirs, 

caster to Harrisburg was the pur- David Harris, Mrs. Maclay, Mrs. Hanna, 

chase of the land offered to the State by Wil- James and Robert Harris. Maclay pur- 




SENATE CHAMBER BALCONY. 



liam Maclay — ten acres adjoining the four- chased all of these plots from the heirs in or- 

acre tract conveyed by John Harris for the der to secure his ten acres intact and then 

nominal sum of five shillings. Maclay re- conveyed them to the State. A further pur- 

ceived $ioo an acre. The grant of land by chase was necessary, however, to obtain all of 

John Harris was separated from the Maclay the fifteen acres now contained in the Capitol 

tract by five lots ranging from what was then grounds, and by an act of the Legislature five 

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"Militia." 

VAN INGEN WINDOW SENATE CHAMBER. 



more lots were purchased from Individual 
owners. 

The bill above quoted carried with it also 
an appropriation of $2,000 for the removal 
of the State's property from Lancaster to 
Harrisburg. Father Penn packed some of 
his possessions and transported them to his 
new home in the month of April, 1812, ac- 
cording to a supplement to the Act of 18 10; 
and the rest was to be removed on or before 
the first of June. Any furniture that was un- 
fit to be removed was to be sold at public 
vendue and the money turned into the State 
Treasury. After the removal, the State 
Treasurer was to deposit such part of the 
public money deemed unsafe in the new office 
at Harrisburg, in banks at Harrisburg and 
Philadelphia, but not in amounts exceeding 
$25,000. The Legislature found quarters in 
the old court house of Dauphin county until 
the completion of the Capitol. The Dauphin 
county courts held their sessions in the mean- 
time in a building known as White Hall, on 
Market street. The old court house, which 

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for ten years was the Capitol of the State, was 
a brick structure, two stories high, with wings 
and a semi-rotunda in front, the whole sur- 
mounted with a circular wooden cupola con- 
taining a bell. The semi-rotunda was put up 
by the State. The court room proper was 
the chamber of the House, and a large room 
on the second story, that of the Senate. The 
State Library was also housed in this build- 
ing. The first session of the Legislature held 
in Harrisburg met in December, 18 12. The 
first Governor inaugurated there was Simon 
Snyder, at the beginning of his second term 
of three years. He was the first of the Penn- 
sylvania German Governors the State had. 

During several years additions were built 
to the court house to accommodate the Leg- 
islature of the State. The Governor occupied 
a house on the site of what is now 1 1 1 South 
Second street, while the other executive offi- 
cers moved directly into the "offices" pro- 
vided for in Section 6 of the bill above 
quoted. 

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THE BUILDING OF THE OLD CAPITOL 



THE first permanent buildings erected at 
Harrisburg, were the "offices" con- 
templated in Section 6 of the original 
act. They were to accommodate the Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth, the Secretary of 
the Land Office, the Surveyor General, the 
Auditor General and the Treasurer. There 
was no Lieutenant Governor in those days; 
that office was created by the Constitution of 
1873, and Wolf (1^^9-35) was the first Gov- 
ernor to have his office in the Capitol build- 
ings. His predecessors had used a room in 
their private residence for that purpose, 
greatly to the annoyance of those that were 



not accustomed to servants in waiting, sta- 
tioned at every turn. 

Each of these office buildings was to be 
fireproof. The two were to be built for $30,- 
000; but it took first another $30,000 (see 
Act of March 28, 1811), and again $13,000 
(see Act of March 10, 18 12) "to complete 
the fireproof offices at Harrisburg." The 
following is an itemized account (see journal 
of the Senate, 1811-12, p. 66) of the cost of 
the two office buildings : 

Stone, quarrying, working, etc., $28,342 35 

Hauling, 6,692 66 




"Railroads." 
VAN INGEN WINDOW — SENATE CHAMBER. 

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Ironmongery, glass, oil, paint and 

painting, etc., 3)867 94 

Bricks, 3,239 54 

Bricklaying and masonry, 2,375 33 

Lumber, 2,033 28 



Mahogany, 

Miscellaneous, comprising ropes, scaf- 
fold poles, blocks and puUies for 
hoisting the stone, sheet lead, watch- 
man, expenses surveying ten-acre lot. 



461 80 




STANDARD IN SENATE CHAMBER. 

Copper and coppering, 2,000 00 drawing and recording deeds there- 
Iron and smith work, 1,603 06 for, advertising for proposals for 

Digging and leveling, 671 07 erecting the buildings, etc., etc., etc., 

Lime and sand, 845 98 Stephen Hills, carpenter, including his 

Slate and slating 784 76 compensation for superintending and 

Well and pump, 328 87 directing all the principal workmen, 

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1,333 10 



3,572 00 



Commissioners' pay, 2,253 92 



Total, $60,405 67 

The joint committee of the Legislature ap- 
pointed to inspect the worlc after the $60,000 
appropriation had been exhausted, and which 
recommended the final appropriation of $13,- 
000, had this to say in support of its recom- 
mendation : 



Owing probably to the War of 18 12 the 
matter of erecting the Capitol proper — the 
"Old Capitol," as it is now known — standing 
between the two office buildings, one of which 
was a few yards to the north and the other 
an equal distance to the south, was not taken 
up before the legislative session of 18 15-16. 
Then the first act relating to the erection of a 
State Capitol was introduced. It was signed 




SENATE LIBRARY. 



"The permanency and elegance of the public 
buildings at Harrisburg will add to the character 
of the State, for taste and grandeur, and the econ- 
omy and integrity of the Commissioners is beyond 
all question." 

This last appropriation of $13,000 was to 
pay for "suitable counters, shelves, and other 
necessary furniture in all of the offices of 
government in said buildings." The heads of 
various executive departments located therein 
were respectively to employ and contract with 
carpenters to make the above-named furni- 
ture. 

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by Governor Snyder, March 18, 18 16, and 
reads as follows : 

An ACT providing for the erection of a State 
Capitol. 

Sect. i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn- 
sylvania, in General Assejubly met, and it is hereby 
enacted by the authority of the same. That the 
sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is 
hereby appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing 
materials for building a state capitol, on the public 
ground in or adjoining to the borough of Harris- 
burg, for the accommodation of the legislature, to 

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be paid in the manner hereinafter mentioned, out of 
any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated. 

Sect. ii. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid, That the governor be and he 
is hereby authorised and required, immediately af- 
ter the passage of this act, to give notice, for four 
weeks successively, in two daily newspapers of the 
city of Philadelphia, and in one newspaper at Lan- 
caster, Harrisburg and Pittsburg respectively, that 
proposals will be received by him, on or before the 
first Monday in October next, for building the said 
capitol ; which proposals shall state the terms on 
which the person making such proposals, shall be 
willing to contract for building the same, and shall 
be accompanied by a ground plan and elevation of 
the said capitol, and the connection thereof with the 
offices already erected, which proposals and plans 
shall be submitted by the governor to the legisla- 
ture at its next session, and the plan adopted by the 
said legislature shall forthwith be carried into execu- 
tion. 

Sect. hi. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid, That the governor, secretary of 
the commonwealth and auditor general, or any two 
of them, be, and they hereby are authorised and di- 
rected to employ, for such compensation as they 
shall think reasonable, some competent person. 



whose duty it shall be, under their direction, to pro- 
cure the necessary and suitable materials for erecting 
the said capitol, to be delivered on the public ground 
aforesaid. 

Sect. IV. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid. That the accounts for materials 
delivered, or services performed, shall be presented 
to the person so employed, who, if he approve 
thereof, shall certify the same to the accountant de- 
partment, and if approved by the officers therein, 
shall be paid by the state treasurer in the uiual 
manner, to the person or persons, or their order, 
who shall furnish the materials or perform the ser- 
vices. 

Sect. v. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid. That it shall be the duty of the 
secretarj' of the commonwealth, to cause the public 
ground to be levelled and improved in a suitable 
manner, and the same to be enclosed with a good 
fence, for which purposes a sum not exceeding one 
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid 
in the manner prescribed in the fourth section of 
this act, on accounts certified by the secretary of 
the commonwealth. 

Sect. vi. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid. That it shall be the duty of the 
secretary of the commonwealth, on or before the 
third Tuesday of January next, to report to the 



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legislature an account of the materials purchased 
and delivered. 

REES HILL, Speaker 

of the House of Representatives. 
JOHN TOD, Speaker of the Senate. 

Approved — the eighteenth day of March, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and sixteen. 

SIMON SNYDER. 

In his message to the Senate and House of 
Representatives, December 5, 18 16, Gov- 
ernor Snyder said: 

"Building materials of the best quality for the 
contemplated State capitol have been purchased out 
of the appropriation of $50,000 made for that pur- 
pose. * » * Three plans for the capitol have 
been presented and are herewith submitted for con- 
sideration." 

The act above quoted provided for the 
purchase of materials and their delivery, for 
leveling and improving the Capitol grounds 
and enclosing them with a fence, and for the 
appointment of an agent to procure the ma- 
terials. Mr. Stephen Hills was again em- 
ployed as agent. He procured "50,000 feet 
of clear white pine boards" at Owego, N. Y., 
to be delivered the following spring. It must 
be remembered that the lumber industry 



about Williamsport was not developed until 
about 1840. 

The only step taken under this first act of 
the Legislature, towards the actual erection 
of the Capitol, was to advertise for plans. 
But beyond the submission of three plans, 
nothing was accomplished in the way of put- 
ting up the Capitol in the year 18 17. A bill 
had passed the Senate but was negatived by 
the House. According to the message of 
Governor Snyder, December 5, 18 17, only a 
small sum was expended by Hills in that year 
for materials. The hitch was about the 
plans; for the Governor said, "The only ob- 
stacle to an immediate prosecution of this 
highly desirable and necessary work seems to 
be the adoption of a plan for the building." 
The same state of affairs prevailed in 181 8. 
There was only $705.77 expended on account 
of the Capitol throughout that year. Of that 
amount Stephen Hills got $642.75 as com- 
pensation for acting as agent in the purchase 
of materials since March 18, 18 16. The 
balance was paid for timber, a jackscrew, and 
for repairing the sheds under which the ma- 
terials already bought were stored. This 
shed was necessary to prevent the materials 
from going to waste. Said Governor Find- 
lay in his message, December 3, 1818: 




" jMuhlenberg." 
ONE OF THE CAPITALS IN CORRIDOR. 

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Many of the materials that have been collected 
for the erection of the capitol at Harrisburg, may 
be injured by time; and with all the vigilance that 
has been exercised for their preservation, they have 
been gradually wasting. I would therefore, with 
deference to the judgment of the Legislature, rec- 
ommend their being applied to the object for which 
they were originally intended. 

In less than two months after the Legisla- 
ture to which the foregoing words were ad- 
dressed had met, namely, on January 27, 



enacted by the authority of the same. That the 
Governor, the Auditor General, the State Treas- 
urer, John B. Gibson and William Graydon, are 
hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the 
erection of a state capitol. Any four of whom shall 
have power to select and adopt such plan for the 
same as they shall deem most convenient, and the 
site of the building shall be the public ground near 
Harrisburg; and in order the better to have a 
choice of plans from which to make such selection, 
it shall be the duty of said commissioners or a ma- 
jority of them, immediately after the passing of this 




HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKER'S ROSTRUM. 



1 8 19, a supplement to the Act of March 18, 
1 8 16, was signed by the Governor. The 
following is the text of the supplement: 

A SUPPLEMENT 

To an act providing for the erection of a State 
Capitol. 

Sect. i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn- 
sylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby 



act, to advertise in two newspapers in each of the 
following places, viz : Boston, New York, Phila- 
delphia, Baltimore and Washington, a description 
of the ground on which the said capitol is to be 
erected, together with the distance between the two 
wings already built, the order of architecture of 
said wings, and to set forth the terms of the con- 
tract required to be made by this law, and such 
other matter as they may deem necessary, to pro- 
cure the most convenient as well as most elegant 
plan from such architects as may be willing to fur- 



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nish the same, on or before the fifteenth day of 
April next. And the said commissioners are hereby 
directed to offer in said advertisement a reward of 
four hundred dollars for the plan which they or a 
majority of them consider the best, and two hun- 
dred dollars for the next best. 

Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid. That the said commissioners or a 
majority of them shall on the fifteenth day of April 
next, or as soon after as practicable, contract with 
some competent architect to erect, finish and com- 



thority aforesaid. That in addition to the sum al- 
ready appropriated by the act to which this is a 
supplement, the further sum of seventy thousand 
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for 
the purposes aforesaid, which shall be drawn from 
the treasury on the Governor's warrant in manner 
following, to wit. Between the first day of May, 
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and the 
first day of December following, for such sum or 
sums as together with the money already expended 
in the procurement of materials, shall amount to 




HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BALCONY. 



plete in every part of the said capitol, according to 
the plan which they shall furnish for any sum not 
exceeding one hundred and twenty thousand dol- 
surety for the performance of his contract on or 
before the first Tuesday of December one thousand 
eight hundred and twenty-one. 

Sect. 3. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid. That it shall be the duty of the 
said commissioners to see that the work is executed 
in a complete and workmanlike manner, and that 
good and substantial materials are used and em- 
ploj'ed therein. 

Sect. 4. And be it further enacted by the au- 



fifty thousand dollars; and between the first days 
of December one thousand eight hundred and nine- 
teen and one thousand eight hundred and twenty, 
for the sum of thirty thousand dollars ; and between 
the first days of December one thousand eight hun- 
dred and twenty and one thousand eight hundred 
and twenty-one, for the sum of thirty thousand dol- 
lars; and for the balance, to wit, ten thousand dol-, 
lars, as soon as the contract shall be completed, and 
the work inspected and approved by six viewers or a 
majority of them, to be appointed by the legislature 
for that purpose. 

Sect. 5. And be it further enacted by the au 



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thority aforesaid. That the commissioners aforesaid 
shall deliver to the architect all the materials now 
procured at the price which they cost the state, 
which materials shall be in part payment of the first 
instalment of fifty thousand dollars aforesaid. 

Sect. 6. And be it further enacted by the au- 
thority aforesaid. That the contingent expenses 
which may occur under the provisions of this law, 
shall not be deducted from the fund appropriated 
for the erection of the capitol, but shall be paid out 



While It was stated by Governor Snyder 
In his last two messages that ample means 
were in the treasury for the erection of the 
Capitol, the final consummation in 1818 of 
the sale of the State House in Philadelphia — 
Independence Hall — to that city, very likely 
hastened the passage of the above supple- 
ment. On March 11, 18 16, the Governor 
was authorized to contract with the mayor, 




HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



of the public treasury by warrant from the Auditor 
General on the State Treasurer, after having been 
settled by the accountant department in the usual 
manner: Provided, That the sum shall not exceed 
seven hundred dollars. 

REES HILL, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 

ISAAC WEAVER, 

Speaker of the Senate. 

Approved — the twenty-seventh day of January, one 
thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 

WILLIAM FINDLAY. 



aldermen and citizens of Philadelphia for the 
sale of the State House and Square. In pur- 
suance of the power then granted, Governor 
Snyder the following month sold that prop- 
erty of the State to Philadelphia for $70,- 
000 payable in three annual installments, two 
of which had been paid by 18 18. The third 
had been withheld because the commissioners 
of the county of Philadelphia, to whom the 
property had been given in charge to lease, 
refused to give possession. This obstacle to 
the final payment was removed by the Legis- 



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lature, March 23, 1818, when it passed an 
act directing the sheriff to dehver forcible 
possession to the authorities of Philadelphia 
in case it became necessary to do so. 

The commissioners named in Section i of 
the supplement of January 27, 18 12, were 
Governor William Findlay, State Treasurer 
Richard M. Grain, Auditor General George 
Bryan, John B. Gibson and William Gray- 
don, who invited architects to exhibit to them 



married at twenty-one sailed for Boston in 
1796. Going into business as a builder, a 
line of occupation he had learned in England, 
he made a reputation for originality and 
solidity, and in the competition for the de- 
signs for Pennsylvania's new State House in 
1817 or 1818 he was one of the men invited 
to bid. It is said he had been commissioned 
to build some houses in Philadelphia and his 
work attracting attention, he was asked to do 







POST CFFICE — HOUSE OF R£l'RhS:;\T.\ri\HS. 



plans and elevations for the contemplated 
buildings. A premium of four hundred dol- 
lars was given for the plans adopted by the 
board, and two hundred for that which they 
should adjudge the next best. Stephen Hills, 
Esq., was declared the successful competitor, 
his plan contemplating the connection of the 
main building with the offices by corridors. 
The award of $200 was made to Mr. Robert 
Mills, of Baltimore. 

Stephen Hills, the architect, was born in 
Kent, England, in 1771, and after getting 



some building in Harrisburg. In the erection 
of the "offices" provided for in Section 6 of 
the Act of February 21, 18 10, he had figured 
as the "carpenter" and "superintending and 
directing all the principal workmen." And 
when the materials were to be collected for 
the Capitol in 1816, he was again made the 
agent of the State (see p. 34). He secured 
the Capitol work and directed its erection 
from the cornerstone laid May 31, 18 19, un- 
til completion two years later. After that 
between sojourns in England he lived in 



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"Religion." 

VAN INGEN WINDOW HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



Harrisburg, erecting 27 North Front street, 
bought from him in 1830 by Jacob Halde- 
man, who left it to his daughter, Mrs. 
Haldeman-Haley, who occupied it in more 
recent years. This house is now the 
home of Superintendent W. B. McCaleb, of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Hills' Pennsyl- 
A ania Capitol drew attention and he built 
that of Missouri at Jefferson in 1837-9, ^"d 
then the first building of the Ohio University. 
He had just finished this work and returned 
to a farm he had bought near East St. Louis, 
when he died in 1844. An early newspaper 
writer describes him as a man of pleasant ad- 
dress, a lively conversationalist, and of ar- 
tistic ability. He possessed unbounded en- 
ergy, and despite his 250 pounds was a close 
inspector, and as contractors of the day 
seemed to think, an exacting supervisor, a 
fact which the strength of the wall and foun- 
dations of the old State House attested when 
it took dynamite to tear them apart in the 
days of demolition. 

The cost of the Capitol by the provisions 
of the supplement of January 27, 18 19, was 
not to exceed $120,000. Of this sum $50,- 
000 had already been appropriated for ma- 



terials by the Act of March 18, 18 16, but 
not all of it had been expended (see p. 39). 
The $70,000 appropriated by the supplement 
was exactly equal to what had been received 
for the old State House in Philadelphia. 
The contract entered into by Mr. Hills, the 
architect, was to be performed by the first 
Tuesday of December, 1821, the day of the 
beginning of the annual sessions of the Leg- 
islature. 

As buildings of all classes, public and pri- 
vate, are seldom built within the first esti- 
mate, so it is no surprise that on March 28, 
1820, the Legislature appropriated $15,000 
with which to contract with the architect "to 
construct the columns and capitals of hewn 
stone and cover the roof of the dome with 
some incombustible material." The original 
specifications called for the columns to be of 
brick plastered, and the capitals, entablature 
and cornice round the whole building of 
wood, with the frieze and architrave of brick, 
while the dome was to consist of ribs of wood 
covered with shingles. 

The cornerstone of the Capitol was laid 
at twelve o'clock on Monday, the 31st of 
May, 1 8 19, by Governor Findlay, Stephen 



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Hills, architect and contractor for the execu- 
tion of the work, Wilham Smith, stone cut- 
ter, and Valentine Gergan and Samuel 
White, masons, in presence of the commis- 
sioners and a large concourse of citizens of 
Harrisburg, and was followed by three dis- 
charges of one of the public cannon. The 
Harrisburg band of music attended and 
added much to the interest and satisfaction 
which all seemed to feel and enjoy; and af- 
ter the ceremonies of the occasion had been 
concluded, the commissioners, architect, stone- 
cutters, masons, carpenters and workmen, 
with a number of citizens, partook of a cold 
collation provided on the public grounds by a 
Mr. Rahm. 

The commissioners deposited in the stone 
copies of the following mentioned docu- 
ments : 

Charter of Charles II to William Penn. 

Declaration of Independence. 

Constitution of Pennsylvania. 

Articles of confederation and perpetual union be- 
tween the several States. 

Copy of so much of an Act of the General As- 
sembly of Pennsylvania by which indemnity was 



made to the heirs of William Penn for their interest 
in Pennsylvania. 

Treaty of peace and acknowledgment by Great 
Britain of the independence of the United States. 

Constitution of the United States, 1787. 

Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1790. 

Acts of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, by which 
the seat of government was removed from Philadel- 
phia to Lancaster and Harrisburg, and the building 
of a State Capitol at the latter place authorized. 

A list of the names of the commissioners, archi- 
tect, stone cutter and chief masons; likewise a list 
of the then officers of the government of Pennsyl- 
vania, embracing the Speakers of the two Houses 
of the Legislature, the Governor, the heads of the 
departments, the judges of the Supreme Court, and 
the Attorney General, with the names of the Presi- 
dent and Vice-President of the United States. 

An act providing for the furnishing of the 
State Capitol, and for other purposes therein 
mentioned, was passed March 30, 1821. 
The following is a synopsis of seven of its 
sections, the eighth and last section referring 
to something else. 

Section i. The Governor, Auditor General, 
State Treasurer, William Graydon, Jacob Bucher, 
Francis R. Shunk and Joseph A. Mcjimsey ap- 



c^r^. 




"Printing Press." 
VAN INGEN WINDOW — HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

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PANEL IN CEILING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



pointed commissioners to superintend the furnishing 
of the State Capitol. * 

Section 2. Commissioners to contract in manner 
provided, for providing furniture for the Executive, 
enumerating the articles. 

Sections 3, 4, 5. Provide in like manner for fur- 
nishing furniture, clauses, etc., for chambers of the 
Senate and House, and for the joint library and 
committee rooms, together with a six-faced clock, 
four of the faces to be outside the dome, one to be 
fixed in a suitable place in the Senate chamber, and 
the other in the Hall of the House of Representa- 
tives. 

Section 6. Provides for building out-houses, 
leveling the public grounds, paving, and authorizing 
the putting the telescope in the library in complete 
order. 

Section 7. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars 
appropriated, to be drawn on the warrant to meet 
the foregoing provisions. 

As stated before, the Capitol was to be 
ready for occupancy by the Legislature at the 
opening of its session on the first Tuesday of 
December, 1821; but Governor Findlay in 
his message that year said to the Senate and 
House of Representatives that "for causes 
beyond the control of the architect, the struc- 
ture has not been completed in time to re- 
ceive the Legislature at the opening of the 
session. However, there can be no doubt 
that the building will be finished in a few 



weeks." And so it was. For on December 
2 1 St, Governor Findlay approved the follow- 
ing resolution of the General Assembly, pro- 
viding: 

That when the Legislature meets in the new State 
Capitol, on Wednesday, the and, January next, that 
it is highly proper, before either House proceeds to 
business, they unite in prayer to Almighty God, im- 
ploring His blessing on their future deliberations, 
and that the joint committee already appointed be 
authorized to make the necessary arrangements for 
that purpose. 

On December 22, 1821, the General As- 
sembly adjourned till January 2, 1822, to en- 
able the ofiicers to remove the papers, etc., to 
the new Capitol. Accordingly on Wednes- 
day, January 2, the Legislature proceeded 
from the Dauphin county court house, which 
had been the Capitol since 1812, in proces- 
sion to the new Capitol, and attended the 
solemnities directed by the resolution of the 
2 1st ultimo, relative to the ceremonies to be 
observed by the Legislature upon taking pos- 
session of the State Capitol. 

On Thursday, the third of January, a mo- 
tion was made in the House, which reads as 
follows : 

"Resolved, That the committee of arrangements 
be requested to procure a copy of the introductory 
prayer and address delivered on the second instant 



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in the State Capitol, previous to the commencement 
of public business and that the usual number of 
copies of each be printed." 

The following account of the ceremonies 
attendant on the removal of the Legislature 
to the new buildings is taken from the Har- 
risburg Chronicle of January 3, 1822: 

"The members of both branches of the Legisla- 
ture met in the morning at 10 o'clock, at the old 
State House, (court house,) from whence they 
moved to the Capitol in the following order: 

"The architect and his workmen, two and two. 
Clergy. Governor and heads of departments. Of- 
ficers of the Senate. Speaker of the Senate. Mem- 
bers of the Senate, two and two. Officers of the 
House of Representatives. Members, two and two. 
Judges. Civil authorities of Harrisburg. Citizens. 

"In front of the Capitol, the architect and his 
workmen opened into two lines, and admitted the 
procession to pass between them and the Capitol. 

"The ceremonies of 'uniting in prayer to Al- 
mighty God, imploring His blessing on their de- 
liberations,' required by concurrent resolution of the 
two Houses, took place in the presence of a large 
assemblage of the inhabitants of this borough and 
county, and strangers. 

"The service was opened by a pertinent and im- 
pressive prayer by Rev. Dr. Lochman, of Harris- 
burg, which concluded as follows : 

" 'And O, Thou great and good and benevolent 



Father of the human family, grant that whenever 
the members of the Legislature enter into their re- 
spective chambers to attend to the duties assigned 
to them that they may always consider that the wel- 
fare of thousands may depend on their deliberations 
and that they are accountable beings who will once 
have to give an account of their stewardship to the 
just and impartial sovereign of the universe. These 
are the petitions which we, on this solemn occasion, 
bring before Thee, the Most High, the God of 
heaven and earth. Oh ! hear them for our Saviour's 
sake, to whom with Thee Father and the Spirit we 
would ascribe the glory and honor forever. Amen.' 

"The prayer was followed by an appropriate dis- 
course by Rev. D. Mason, principal of Dickinson 
College, which concluded as follows: 

" 'Sixty years have not elapsed since the sound of 
the first axe was heard in the woods of Harrisburg. 
The wild beasts and the wilder men occupied the 
banks of the Susquehanna. Since that time, with the 
mildness which has characterized the descendant of 
William Penn and that industry that has marked 
all the generations of Pennsylvania, the forests have 
been subdued, the wild beasts driven away to parts 
more congenial to their nature, and the wilder men 
have withdrawn to regions where they hunt the 
deer and entrap the fish according to the mode prac- 
ticed by their ancestors. In the room of all these 
there has started up, in the course of a few years, 
a town, respectable for the number of its inhabitants, 
for its progressive industry and for the seat of leg- 
islation In this powerful State. What remains to 
be accomplished of all our temporal wishes? What 




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GOVERNOR S RECEPTION ROOM. 



more have we to say? What more can be said but March i8, 1816, for the Capitol proper, . $60,000 

go on and prosper, carry the spirit of your improve- January 27, 1819, for the Capitol proper, 70,000 

ments through till the sound of the hammer, the March 28, 1820, for the Capitol proper, . 15,000 

whip of the waggoner, the busy hum of man, the 

voices of innumerable children issuing from the -p^^j^j f^j. ^j^^ Capitol proper, .... $145,000 

places of instruction, the lofty spires of worship; March 30, 1821, for the Capitol furnish- 

till richly endowed colleges of education ; till all j^g^ $15,000 

these arts which embellish man shall gladden the 

banks of the Susquehanna and the Delaware, and -po^al foj. (],g Capitol buildings, . . $233,000 

exact from admiring strangers that cheerful and 

grateful tribute, "This is the work of a Pennsylva- ^f^gj. |j-g occupancy by the Legislature, the 

ma Legislature. Capitol required some more furnishings. 

Summing up the various appropriations, Accordingly the sum of $7,000 was appro- 

we find the original cost of the Capitol build- pnated, January 23, 1822, and $1,500 more 

ings to have been: fo"" f^e same purpose, Apnl 2, 1822. The 

architect, too, had an unpaid balance of $3,- 

February 21, 1810, for the two office ooo due him, which amount was appropriated 

bu'Wings, ... $30,000 j^ ^^^ ^j.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^g ■ mentioned. Add- 

March 28, 181 1, for the two office build- . . ^ ^ ^u ^.-ifd-^^^ 

1 xa. y. u, V , these amounts to the sum total of $233,- 

ings 30,000 ^ , , 1 J, -^1 . 

n/r L o x .1, . o; k -u 000, the grand total was $244,500. Inis 

March 10, 1812, for the two office build- ' . , , , / t-tij 

^ 13,000 '^oes not include the cost of the ground (see 

p. 27), nor of its improvement and embel- 

Total, $73,000 lishment with fences, trees, walks and drives, 

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nor of the State Arsenal, built at the same 
time, and which cost $12,000. 

By a resolution passed April i, 1825, the 
first eftort was made to extend the Capitol 
grounds. The extension was to be made in 
front, towards the west as far as the river, 
between North street and South street. It 
included what was known as the village of 
McClaysburg. The purchase of the ground 
was not consummated. The cost was not to 



ings in the first fifty years after their erection, 
the largest and most important one made, 
was that of 1864. Governor Curtin and two 
other commissioners were appointed to erect 
wings to the Capitol, "according to the orig- 
inal plan." They found that the additions 
could not be made "according to the original 
plan," but that an additional wing to the 
building on its eastern front could be made, 
"not only without injury to the present struc- 




GOVERNOR S PRIVATE OFFICE. 



exceed $2,000; but some of the owners asked 
too much to keep the cost within that amount, 
and others were unwilling to sell at any price. 

It seems, too, that the American flag did 
not always float from the dome of the old 
Capitol. On January 29, 1861, a joint reso- 
lution was signed by Governor Curtin, au- 
thorizing its display whenever either house 
might be in session. The expense "of pro- 
curing and putting up a flagstaff and flags on 
the dome," was $708.75. It was raised on 
Washington's birthday. 

While there were various alterations and 
extensions to the old Capitol and office build- 



ture, but in such a manner as to improve the 
present appearance of that front of the Capi- 
tol." The amount of money appropriated 
for the erection of the wings was $50,000, 
but under the change of plans, the extension 
cost $88,727. The extension made was a 
fireproof building. The upper portion was 
used for the State Library, and the extension 
used to be known as the "Library Extension." 
In the same year an effort was made to re- 
move the seat of government to Philadel- 
phia. On February 24, Mr. James Miller, 
of that city, offered a resolution in the House 
of Representatives, that in view of a contem- 



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MANTEL IN GOVERNOR S RECEPTION ROOM. 



plated removal of the seat of government to 
Philadelphia, the Committee on Education 
should look into the expediency of establish- 
ing a State college, whose leading object 
should be thorough military training, which 
college, in case of the removal, should occupy 
the present State Capitol buildings and 
grounds. On April 14, we find that Mr. 
H. C. Alleman, of Dauphin county, pre- 
sented a remonstrance from the people of 
Middletown, Dauphin county, against the re- 
moval of the capital to Philadelphia. On 
April 22, Mr. Smith, of Chester county, 
from a select committee on the subject, re- 
ported that owing to the increase of the pub- 
lic business by reason of the war, the great 
prosperity of the State, and from natural 
causes and industrial progress, a great en- 
largement of the Capitol buildings and the 
erection of new ones, was necessary. How- 
ever the committee thought the expense of 



such improvements would be too great under 
the conditions of the finances then existing. 
To overcome that difficulty, Philadelphia 
pledged her faith for $1,000,000, provided 
the Legislature would at that session pass a 
law declaring Philadelphia the seat of gov- 
ernment of the Commonwealth. A joint 
resolution was prepared in the House to re- 
move the capital to Philadelphia, but it was 
defeated by a vote of 71 to 20. 

Coming down to more recent years, we 
find that the old Capitol with all its addi- 
tions had again become inadequate. It was 
seen that the library room was too small and 
inconvenient, and that the contents were ex- 
posed to great risk of destruction by fire; 
also that there was no place for the safe- 
keeping of the archives and early records of 
the State Department, that valuable historic 
paintings were scattered and exposed to in- 
jury, and that extensive and interesting geo- 



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logical and mineralogical specimens from all 
parts of the State could not be exhibited for 
want of a place. Accordingly, on April 14, 
1893, it was ordered by law that a fireproof 
building should be erected within the Capi- 
tol grounds. It was designated as the State 
Department and Library building, and was 
occupied by the Governor, Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, Attorney General, State 
Treasurer and Auditor General, besides be- 



ing used for the State Library, archives, bat- 
tle flags, art treasures, and geological and 
mineralogical collections. For its erection 
and furnishing, $500,000 was appropriated. 
At the same time, $125,000 was authorized 
to be expended in remodeling the old library 
room, the hall of the House of Representa- 
tives, and for other additions, alterations, re- 
pairs and furnishing of any Capitol buildings 
in need of it. 




"Wolf." 

TILE DESIGN. 



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THE BURNING OF THE OLD CAPITOL 




standard in 
governor's reception room. 



ON TUESDAY, February 2, 1897, 
the clock in the dome of the State 
Capitol struck 12 o'clock as usual; 
but when it struck again, it tolled its own 
deathknell; for at i o'clock the fire that de- 
stroyed the historic building on that day had 
already encircled the dome like a hydra- 
headed serpent; and the old clock and all 
that was dear about Pennsylvania's Capitol 
was doomed to be no more. 

The fire broke out in the rooms of the 
Lieutenant Governor, shoi'tly before i 
o'clock, and in twenty minutes the halls of 
the Senate and House, as well as the offices 
of the legislative department were threat- 
ened with flames that could not be 
quenched. The Senate had taken a re- 
cess of half an hour at 12.30; and the 
House had almost completed its day's ses- 
sion. Smoke had been in evidence in the Sen- 
ate chamber all morning and seemed to be- 
come denser as the forenoon wore on. Im- 
mediately after the recess had begun in the 
Senate, an investigation was made in the 
Lieutenant Governor's room. Upon remov- 
ing a piece of the floor, flames shot out with 
such force as to show the seriousness of the 
fire. The alarm was given at once. Owing 
to a stiff northeast wind and the fall of 
snow, the firemen were very much at a dis- 
advantage when they arrived. They fought 
the flames heroically; but the old, dry timber 
burned like tinder. The fire leaped the 
rotunda, climbed through the dome and back 
into what was known as the State Library 
addition, and then a burst of flame swept 
through the doors into the chamber of the 
House, which body had adjourned just in 
time to get out in order. 

Thousands of people had gathered around 

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the burning building and were watching the 
progress of the flames. They stood in the 
driving rain and snow, breathlessly watch- 
ing the element of destruction. The old 
dome and stone cap surmounted by its gold 
ball was set in a circle of fire that presented 
a weird, yet beautiful sight. The clock in 
the dome was to the multitude a living thing. 
All eyes were turned to its face. At last it 
lost its moorings and began to strike wildly. 
In the midst of the clamor, its supports gave 
way and the entire superstructure of the mag- 
nificent old dome fell to the floor of the 
rotunda. At 2.45 the entire building was in 
ruins, and all that remained standing were 
the walls of the main structure, the great 
pillars of the two porticos and the two brick 
additions at the ends of the Senate and 
House chambers. 

A small army of men and several large 
wagons were pressed into service at once to 
save what had not been burned. Sofas, 
desks, chairs, clocks, documents, were carried 
away to a place of safety. Most of the valu- 
able documents fortunately had been trans- 
ferred to the new Executive Building and 
State Library upon its completion. Never- 
theless papers and records were destroyed 
that could never be duplicated. 



The cause of the fire was a question of 
much speculation for several years. Charges 
were made that the building had been set on 
fire and a noted trial in court resulted from 
the fact that such charges had been made. 
The Legislature, too, set an investigation on 
foot, February 16, 1897, the report of which 
was that the fire had most likely originated 
in a fire-place in the Lieutenant Governor's 
room, or possibly by a defect in the electric 
wires under the floor of said room. 

The old Capitol had an interesting his- 
tory. It had witnessed the inauguration of 
sixteen Governors. Presidents Harrison, 
Tyler, Taylor, Lincoln, Grant and Hayes 
had been within its walls. Webster en- 
tranced an audience with his fiery eloquence. 
Lafayette was the guest of the State in the 
Senate chamber, and in i860 a similar honor 
was accorded to the Prince of Wales. 

The last official business done in the Senate 
on the eventful February 2, 1897, was to 
adjourn at i o'clock, when the fire had as- 
sumed such proportions as to make it danger- 
ous to tarry longer. The adjournment was 
made to meet the following day at 1 1 o'clock 
A. M. The last act of the House was a like 
motion after a tremendous explosion back of 
the gallery, causing a general stampede. 




"Pulaski." "Teedyuscung." 

CAPITALS — ENTRANCE TO CORRIDOR. 

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After the fire was out, the question on every- 
body's lips was, "What will the Legislature 
do?" The Constitution prohibits a meeting 
at any other place than at Harrisburg unless 
the change is authorized by a vote of the 
people, Article III, Section 28. The solu- 
tion of the problem was readily and quickly 
accomplished. The Senate, at the appointed 
hour of II A. M., February 3, met in the 
Supreme Court room, located in the south 



office building; and the homeless House as- 
sembled in the United States District Court 
room, in the post office building. Within 
a few days arrangements were made whereby 
the Legislature was enabled to take up its 
quarters in Grace Methodist Church on State 
street, where it remained until the end of the 
session. The congregation received $20,- 
000 for the use of the church, besides the in- 
stallation of electric lighting and the laying 
of new carpets. 




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THE BUILDING OF THE NEW CAPITOL 



THE Legislature promptly took steps 
looking to the rebuilding of the 
Capitol, appropriating, April 14, 
1897, $550,000 therefor, and naming as a 
Commission, Governor Hastings, Auditor 



and estimated its cost at $510,000, and the 
Commission selected as competing architects 
James H. Warner, of Lancaster; Furness & 
Evans, Alden & Harlow, of Philadelphia; 
McKim, Meade & White, New York; Pea- 




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General Mylin, State Treasurer Haywood, 
President pro tempore of the Senate McCar- 
rell and Speaker of the House Boyer. Hay- 
wood and Mylin retiring from office, Beacom 
and McCauley became commissioners by vir- 
tue of succeeding the former in office. 

The Commission met on the day the Gov- 
ernor approved the bill. It elected Prof. 
Warren Powers Laird, of Philadelphia, as 
advisory architect. On May 3, Professor 
Laird submitted a plan for the new building 



body & Stearns, Boston, and Harding & 
Gooch, New York. McKim, Meade & 
White declined and Cope & Stewart, Phila- 
delphia, took their places. 

On May 26, Allen B. Rorke, of Philadel- 
phia, was given the contract to tear down 
the old Capitol at a cost of $4,750, and the 
real work began. When the Commission 
met on July 24, thirty-one plans were submit- 
ted for the new Capitol, which were referred 
to a committee of three experts, of which 



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Professor Laird was chairman. A week 
later this committee submitted six plans 
which it said were superior, and the plans 
were placed in Grace Church that the Com- 
mission might examine them. 

In the meantime it leaked out that cer- 
tain numbered plans had been successful as 
best and second best, and an enterprising 
newspaper man secured access to the church 
and had photographs taken of the two num- 



and Auditor General Mylin took the oppo- 
site ground, and favored throwing out all of 
the plans. This was subsequently agreed to, 
whereupon Governor Hastings left the chair, 
and only on rare occasions thereafter met 
with the Commission, but never again as pre- 
siding officer, Mr. Boyer filling that place. 

The Commission then asked the six archi- 
tects whose plans had been adjudged superior 
to again submit plans, but only two of them 




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bered plans, which were printed in the Har- 
risburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburg news- 
papers. 

When the Commission again met in Sep- 
tember there was great dissatisfaction 
among the members because the committee 
of experts had not examined all of the plans, 
but had thrown out some of them on the 
ground that they violated the conditions of 
the contest, and It was decided to reject the 
report of the experts, return all designs and 
ask for others. Governor Hastings pro- 
tested against this action of the committee, 

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did so, and on October 22, the plan of Henry 
Ives Cobb, of Chicago, was adopted and he 
was selected as architect to construct the 
building. In the meantime the other archi- 
tects, through counsel, went into court to ob- 
tain an injunction against the Commission 
and prevent it from selecting a plan. Judge 
Simonton dismissed the bill on the ground 
that the Commission was clearly within its 
rights when it threw out all plans, as the ex- 
perts had not carried out the provisions of 
the program. The Supreme Court subse- 
quently affirmed Judge Simonton. 

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At a meeting held on December 29 the 
Commission decided to face the exterior of 
the new Capitol with Pennsylvania marble, 
but this was never carried out for lack of 
money. Then they began to look for a con- 
tractor, but Governor Hastings threw an- 
other obstruction in the way. Through At- 
torney General McCormick he sought to en- 
join the Commission from awarding a con- 
tract. Judge Simonton again refused to inter- 



the Rev. Dr. J. S. J. McConnell, Masonic 
Grand Chaplain, Grand Master William J. 
Kelley laid the stone in place according to 
the Masonic ritual. The copper box placed 
in the receptacle of the stone contained the 
following articles: 

1. A copy of the Act of April 14, 1897, author- 
izing the erection of the building. 

2. The State Constitution of 1873. 




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fere, and the Commission on April 18, 1898, 
awarded the contract for building the new 
Capitol to Allen B. Rorke, of Philadelphia, 
for $325,000, and appointed Philip H. John- 
son to supervise the construction. 

The cornerstone was laid August 10, 
1898, the ceremonies being conducted by 
the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsyl- 
vania. Three residents of Harrisburg, 
Abraham T. Erb, John C. Clyde and Charles 
Swartz, who had attended the ceremonies of 
laying the cornerstone of the old Capitol, 
witnessed those of the new. After prayer by 



3. Smull's Handbook for 1898. 

4. A copy of the Masonic ceremonies. 

5. Copies of the Harrisburg papers with the ac- 
count of the fire of February 2, 1897. 

6. Copy of the publication, "The John Harris 
Mansion, 1766-1897." 

7. Various denominations of postage stamps and 
revenue stamps. 

8. Various gold and silver coins. 

9. Silver plate with names of officers of the 
Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania. 

10. Names of the Capitol Commission. 

11. Names of the Architect and Contractor. 

12. Names of State officers and their deputies. 



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13- Names of members of Supreme and Superior 
Courts. 

14. Names of United States Senators Quay and 
Penrose. 

15. Name of Orator of the Day. 

Also all the articles found in the corner- 
stone of the old Capitol : • 



Governor Hastings then made an address, 
giving a historical review of the government 
of Pennsylvania from the opening of the first 
Assembly at Upland, December 6, 1682, to 
the present time. The orator of the day was 
Col. Alexander S. McClure, editor of the 
Philadelphia Times. One of the paragraphs 
of his oration was as follows : 



I. Copy of Charter of Charles II to William 
Penn. 



"We must not distrust free institutions because 
they are not faultless. The sun with all its benefi- 




SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH S DEPARTMENT. 



2. Declaration of Independence. 

3. Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. 

4. Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790. 

5. Pennsylvania Constitution of 1838. 

6. United States Constitution of 1787. 

7. The Articles of Confederation of the United 
States. 

8. Treaty of Peace between United States and 
England, 1783. 

9. Acts of Removal of Capital from Philadelphia 
to Lancaster and from Lancaster to Harrisburg. 

10. Copy of so much of an Act as related to the 
payment of the interest which Penn's heirs had in 
Pennsylvania. 



cence is not unspotted. The rose with its match- 
less beauty and fragrance has its thorns and there is 
not in all creation an example of perfection. I have 
faith in the American people. I have faith in the 
foreign citizenship of Pennsylvania and I know that 
her people, tolerant and forbearing as they may be, 
will in the fullness of duty, correct the errors of 
rulers and purify the leadership of parties." 

After the benediction and the Masonic re- 
sponse, "So mote it be," the dedicatory ser- 
vices were over. 

The Commission built a brick structure, of 
such solid construction that it was a marvel 



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at the time, albeit its architectural features 
were such as to give it the name of "the sugar 
factory" and "the barn." It much resem- 
bled an industrial plant, but it served its pur- 
pose. It kept the Capitol at Harrisburg, 
especially when the Legislature disagreed 
about the building of the Capitol next session 
and the year 1899 passed without an appro- 
priation. 

Henry Ives Cobb, the architect, had a 



be countenanced by the people. When the 
session of 1899 opened Governor Hastings, 
in his message, scored the Capitol Commis- 
sion, from which he had seceded, in unmerci- 
ful terms, saying that they had betrayed the 
trust imposed in them and given the State a 
Capitol building unfit for habitation. It was 
evident that something must be done, and on 
January 31, 1899, a bill was introduced in 
the House creating a new Capitol Commis- 




ATTORNEY GENERAL S PRIVATE OFFICE. 



national reputation. He had been a member 
of the board of architects selected to act as 
judges of the buildings at the Columbian Ex- 
position and was the designer of the Fisheries 
building. He drew the plans for a number 
of Chicago's largest structures. At the time 
of his selection to design Pennsylvania's 
Capitol, he was in the employment of United 
States Treasury Department, doing expert 
architectural work, and was engaged in the 
erection of buildings in six different States. 

The Legislature knew that the unsightly 
brick pile turned over to the State would not 



sion to finish the Capitol and appropriating 
$2,000,000 and the unexpended balance left 
by the old Commission for that purpose. 
This bill was never heard of after it was in- 
troduced and it died in committee. 

In the Senate a bill was introduced author- 
izing the construction and completion of the 
State Capitol building, and continuing the 
old Commission in ofUce for that purpose. 
It authorized an appropriation of $4,000,- 
000 or $1,000,000 a year for four years. 
This bill came out of committee, but its con- 
sideration was postponed from time to time 



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because of factional opposition; and finally 
it died on the calendar. And that was the 
last of the new Capitol for two years to 
come. 

After the destruction of the old Capitol in 
1897, a movement was begun in the Legisla- 
ture, February 10, by the introduction of a 
bill to remove the seat of government to 
Philadelphia. It was argued that the metrop- 
olis of the State would be much better able 



Houses for the construction and completion 
of the State Capitol at Harrisburg, re- 
doubled efforts were made to remove the seat 
of government to Philadelphia. After a 
lengthy debate on second reading and the de- 
feat of numerous amendments substituting 
for Philadelphia a score of cities and towns 
in all parts of the State — from Pittsburg to 
Donegal — the bill came up in the House for 
third reading and final passage. The preju- 




AUDITOR GENERAL S DEPARTMENT. 



to accommodate the large body of men con- 
nected with the State government; that the 
opportunities for pleasure and recreation 
would be much greater there; that the 
traveling facilities would be better; and that 
William Penn, the founder of the Common- 
wealth, had designed that Philadelphia 
should be the capital. But the bill when up 
for second reading was indefinitely post- 
poned. In 1899, another bill to the same 
effect was introduced and it got as far on in 
its passage as first reading. In 1901, how- 
ever, when bills were introduced in both 



dice among the people in the interior of the 
State against locating the capital in a large 
city — the same prejudice that caused its re- 
moval to Lancaster in 1799 — weighed heav- 
ily against the bill. Then, too, the vast sum 
of money required to effect the change ap- 
peared to many an insuperable objection to 
the project. Accordingly, on the 8th of 
May, this last move to take the capital back 
to Philadelphia was negatived by a vote of 
103 to 75. After that the building and com- 
pletion of the new Capitol at Han'isburg 
went merrily forward. 



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Governor Stone had voiced the popular 
sentiment about completing the Capitol build- 
ing in his message to the Legislature, Janu- 
ary, 1 90 1, when he made the following 
recommendations on the subject: 

The destruction by fire of the main Capitol build- 
ing on February 2, 1897, ^"^'as followed by the pas- 
sage of a bill approved April 14, 1899, appropriating 
the sum of $550,000 for the construction of a Cap- 
itol building under the supervision of a commission 
composed of the Board of Public Grounds and 



keeping with her wealth, population and dignity as 
a State. No unnecessary or extravagant expendi- 
ture of monej's should be contemplated in its com- 
pletion, but sufficient moneys should be appropri- 
ated to insure a Capitol building that will not be a 
disgrace to the State and that will not justify un- 
favorable criticism in comparison with the Capitol 
buildings of other States. 

This Legislature should, in my judgment, pass an 
act providing for the completion of the Capitol 
building and appropriating sufficient money to war- 
rant a respectable and sufficient structure. Under 




AUDITOR GENERAL S PRIVATE OFFICE. 



Buildings, the President pro tempore of the Senate 
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Under this legislation the present structure was 
built. Without considering the disputes in said com- 
mission, and without considering the merits of said 
disputes, the result is a structure which is of suffi- 
cient stable foundation to warrant a further appro- 
priation for its completion and, owing to the in- 
creased cost of materials and labor that entered into 
it, the moneys expended in it cannot now be re- 
garded as a wasteful expenditure. The problem 
now to be dealt with is the completion of this struc- 
ture — either in accordance with the plan in the 
minds of those who constructed it, or by some other 
plan that shall be adopted by the Legislature. 

Pennsylvania should have a Capitol building in 



the Constitution of the State, there is no provision 
for borrowing money for the purpose and the 
moneys expended in its completion must be paid out 
of the general revenues of the State. Care must be 
had then with reference to the amount of revenues 
that can be diverted from the general necessary ex- 
penditures. Owing to the increasing demands of 
necessary charitable institutions and the uncer- 
tainty that always surrounds anticipated revenue, I 
do not think it would be safe to take out of the 
revenues for the next two years sufficient moneys to. 
complete this building, and if it cannot be com- 
pleted in time for the meeting of the next Legisla- 
ture in January, 1903, its completion may as well 
be postponed until the meeting of the Legislature in 
January, 1905. 



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I, therefore, respectfully recommend the passage 
of a law appropriating annually so much of the gen- 
eral revenues of the State during the next four years 
as the Legislature shall deem necessary for the 
proper completion of this building and providing 
that it be finished by the first Tuesday in January, 
1905. 

Three bills were accordingly introduced in 
the House of Representatives for the erection 
and completion of the State Capitol, early in 



the bill for the removal of the capital to 
Philadelphia was defeated (see p. 58). 
After amending it, the House sent it to the 
Senate for concurrence, which was refused, 
whereupon a conference committee was ap- 
pointed. Its report not being accepted by 
the House, the Senate receded from its non- 
concurrence in the amendments made by the 
House and it was presented to the Governor 
for his signature on June 27, the last day of 




TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 



the session of 1901 — one by Mr. Calder, of 
Harrlsburg; one by Mr. Kennedy, of Beaver 
county, and one by Mr. Palm, of Crawford 
county. But owing to the intervention of the 
attempt to remove the capital to Philadel- 
phia, these bills received little consideration. 
In the Senate Mr. Fox, of Dauphin county, 
likewise early in the session introduced a bill 
for the construction and completion of the 
State Capitol building. This bill, having 
passed the Senate May i, was reported from 
a committee of the House by Mr. Cassell, of 
Lancaster county, as an amended House bill, 
in the afternoon of the same day on which 



the session. It became a law July 18, 1901. 
This disagreement centered about the cost of 
the Capitol. The bill as passed by the Sen- 
ate made the cost not to exceed $5,000,000. 
As passed finally, the cost was not to exceed 
$4,000,000. The following is the text of 
the bill : 

AN ACT 

To provide for the removal of the two buildings 
now occupied by the Secretary of Internal Af- 
fairs and other Departments of the State Gov- 
ernment and the Secretary of Agriculture and 
other Departments of the State Government, and 



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for the construction and completion of the State 
Capitol Building, and making an appropriation 
therefor; and repealing an act, entitled "An act 
to provide for the erection of a new Capitol 
Building for the use of the General Assembly, 
and to secure plans for said building and other 
buildings to be erected in the future as may be 
necessar}'^ for Executive and Departmental pur- 
poses, and making an appropriation therefor," 
approved the fourteenth day of April, Anno 
Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
seven. 



factorily supply the needs of said building or build- 
ings. And to employ an architect, who shall be a 
citizen of Pennsylvania; and said Commission shall 
receive no compensation whatever for its services, 
but shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred 
in connection with the duties thereof. Any vacan- 
cies occurring in the number of the Commission 
shall be filled by appointment by the then Governor 
of the Commonwealth. 

Section 2. On the passage of this act, said Com- 
mission shall proceed, as speedily as possible, to have 
necessary drawings and specifications prepared, and 




STATE TREASURER S PRIVATE OFFICE. 



Section i. Be it enacted, &c., That the Gov- 
ernor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall 
appoint four persons, resident within the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, who, with the present Gov- 
ernor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Wil- 
liam A. Stone, shall constitute a Commission until 
the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred 
and six, when said Commission shall cease to exist; 
virhich Commission is hereby authorized and em- 
powered to construct, build and complete the State 
Capitol Building at Harrisburg, including a power, 
light and heat plant, of sufficient capacity to satis- 



let contracts for the execution of the work. Said 
Commission may make such modifications in the 
construction of the building already erected, and in 
the plans and specifications for the contemplated ad- 
ditions thereto, as it may deem advisable; but said 
Commission shall provide ample accommodations 
for the Executive and Departmental branches of 
the State, as well as the General Assembly, its offi- 
cers and employes. Said contracts shall include the 
removal of the two buildings now occupied by the 
Secretary of Internal Affairs and other depart- 
ments of the State Government and the Secretary 



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of Agriculture and other departments of the State 
Government. Said Commission Is hereby author- 
ized and empowered to remove the same, if in the 
judgment of the Commission it becomes necessary to 
occupy the whole or any part of either or both sites 
thereof, for the purpose of the new building. Said 
Commission shall provide temporary quarters in the 
new Capitol Building or elsewhere, for the occu- 
pants of the above Departmental buildings, during 
the time of demolition of their present quarters and 
the construction of new quarters. Said Commis- 



gineers, experts, architects, superintendents, clerks 
and other employes, shall not exceed the sum of 
four millions ($4,000,000.00) dollars; of which 
amount not more than eight hundred thousand dol- 
lars shall be paid in any one fiscal year, unless the 
Governor, State Treasurer and the Auditor Gen- 
eral shall certify that there is money enough in the 
State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated ; in 
which case the amount of the annual expenditure 
may be increased to a sum not exceeding one mil- 
lion two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Said 




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sion shall let contracts, by public advertising, to the 
lowest, best and most responsible bidder, and shall 
have the right to reject any and all bids; and shall 
require all contractors to give bonds, satisfactory to 
said Commission, equal to one-half the amount of 
the respective contracts. Said building shall be com- 
pleted in all its parts, ready for occupation, on or 
before the first day of January, one thousand nine 
hundred and six. 

Section 3. The total aggregate cost for the con- 
struction of said Capitol Building, including the 
dome and Departmental wings, also including all 
fees, commissions, salaries and expenses of all kinds 
for the Commission, counsellors and attorneys, en- 



payments shall be made by the State Treasurer 
upon warrants drawn by the Auditor General from 
time to time, upon the presentation to him of speci- 
fically itemized vouchers, approved by the proper 
officers of said commission. 

Section 4. The act entitled "An act to provide 
for the erection of a new Capitol Building for the 
use of the General Assembly, and to secure plans 
for said building and such other buildings to be 
erected in the future as may be necessary for Execu- 
tive and Departmental purposes, and making an 
appropriation therefor," approved the fourteenth 
day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun- 
dred and ninety-seven, is hereby repealed; and all 



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other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be 
and the same are hereby repealed. 

Approved — The 1 8th day of July, A. D. 1901. 
WILLIAM A. STONE. 

As seen from a reading of the Fox bill, it 
provides that the Commission should serve 
without compensation except their actual 
expenses, that they employ a Pennsylvanian 
as architect, that they provide for the housing 
of the departments during the time occupied 



struction, of Lancaster; Edward Bailey, of 
Harrisburg. 

At the organization meeting of this Com- 
mission, held August 20, 1901, Governor 
Stone was elected president, E. C. Gerwig, 
private secretary to the Governor, secretary; 
Edward Bailey, treasurer; Robert K. Young, 
of Tioga county, solicitor, and T. Larry 
Eyre, who was then Superintendent of Public 
Grounds and Buildings, superintendent. 

In accordance with the act creating the 




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by the work of completing the Capitol, and 
that they remove the two office buildings 
which had flanked the old State Capitol 
burned in the fire of 1897. 

The Commission was directed to complete 
its labors by January i, 1906, and was com- 
posed of the following members : 

Governor William A. Stone; Congress- 
man William H. Graham, of Allegheny; 
William P. Snyder, President pro tempore of 
the Senate, of Chester county; Dr. Nathan 
C. Schaefter, Superintendent of Public In- 



Commission, architects were asked to submit 
plans for the completion of the building. In 
order to induce responsible architects to enter 
the competition, the Commission announced 
that five per cent, of the cost of the building 
would be paid to the successful architect for 
the supervision of the construction of the 
building and five architects submitting the 
next best plans should receive $1,000 each. 

The Commission selected as its architect- 
ural adviser Prof. W. R. Ware, professor 
of architecture in Columbia University. The 



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plans were submitted under nom de plumes 
and neither the architectural adviser nor the 
members of the Commission had any knowl- 
edge of the identity of the competitors. As 
the result of a very exhaustive examination 
of the plans and specifications submitted, 
Professor Ware reported to the Commission 
that it would be safe to select any one of four 
sets of plans. The Commission selected a set 
of plans as the best submitted, which were 



The corner stone laid August lo, 1898, 
not being considered representative of the 
building now to be constructed and com- 
pleted, a new stone was laid on the corner 
just to the right of the main entrance. 
The ceremony was very simple. It con- 
sisted merely of the placing of the box in the 
hollow stone by Architect Huston and Con- 
tractor Payne, the laying of a bed of cement 
for the capstone by Governor Pennypacker 




ADJUTANT GENERALS DEPARTMENT. 



the work of Joseph M. Huston, of Philadel- 
phia. 

More than a year of tedious work was 
done on the specifications and materials. 
Members of the commission traveled all over 
the country to the various granite quarries in- 
specting the stone and informing themselves 
as to its quality. They had also to deter- 
mine whether the quarry selected would be 
capable of turning out the required quantity 
without any deterioration or differentiation in 
the color and durability. The result was the 
selection of Vermont granite of which a num- 
ber of government buildings have been con- 
structed. 



and the swinging of the capstone into place 
by Contractor Payne's men. The whole 
affair took only ten minutes. 

After the box had been placed in the stone, 
Architect Huston handed the Governor a sil- 
ver trowel with an ebony handle and he 
spread the mortar on the box which was cov- 
ered with a canvas wrapper tied with violet 
ribbon. When the task had been completed 
the two and one-half ton capstone was low- 
ered into place by the steam crane, which 
proudly floated a new American flag. 

With the Governor on the stand was the 
Capitol Commission and its officials, together 
with a few State officials and private citizens. 



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The silver trowel used by the Governor had 
this inscription on the blade: "This trowel 
was used by Governor Samuel W. Penny- 
packer to lay the memorial box in the corner 
stone of the capitol building of Pennsylvania, 
May 5, 1904. iVrchitect, Joseph M. Hus- 
ton. Contractors, George F. Payne & Co." 
The copper box was covered on all sides 
with inscriptions, giving the names of the 
members of the Capitol Commission, the 



Report of the Auditor General, 1903. 
Pennsylvania Life Insurance Report, igo2. 
Report of State Treasurer, 1903. 
Report of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

1903- 

Report of Secretary of Internal Affairs on Rail- 
roads, Canals, Telegraphs and Telephones, 1903. 

Report of Commissioner of Banking, 1903. 

Report of Commissioner of the Sinking Fund, 

1903- 

Report of State Commission of Fisheries, 1902. 
Report of Department of Agriculture, 1902. 




ADJUTANT GENERALS RECEPTION ROOM. 



architect and contractor, the heads of the 
State departments, Senators and Members of 
Congress from Pennsylvania. 

The following were placed in the box : 

William Penn's "No Cross No Crown." 

Thirteen United States postage stamps from a 
penny to a dollar. 

United States coins of 1904, silver dollar, one 
half dollar, one quarter dollar, dime, five cent 
piece and cent, Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold 
dollar with Jefferson head. 

Laws of Pennsylvania, 1903. 

Vetoes of the Governor and inaugural address, 
1903. 



Report of the Auditor General, 1 902. 

Report of the Factory Inspector, 1903. 

Report of the Secretarj' of the Commonwealth, 
1902. 

List of charters of Pennsylvania corporations. 

Report of the Attorney General, 1902. 

Smull's Legislative Hand Book, 1903. 

William A. Kelker's weather reports of Harris- 
burg, from 1889 to 1903. 

Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania for' 
1903-04. 

Copies of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Public Led- 
ger, and Evening Bulletin. Pittsburgh Gazette and 
Pittsburgh Post, Erie Morning Dispatch, Lancaster 
New Era, and Lancaster Examiner, Harrisburg 



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Patriotj and Harrisburg Telegraph, and Erie Even- 
ing Herald. 

Pennsylvania Magazine, January, 1904. 

Photograph of George F. Payne, contractor. 

On the whole there were very few delays. 
At first it was a little difficult to get the re- 
quii-ed number of brick, which ran into the 
millions. Then strikes held up the delivery 
of some of the granite and structural iron. 
The stonecutters delayed the work for a short 



only its regular session, but one extra session. 
These sessions also interfered greatly with 
the building operations. 

The Commission divided its appropriation 
as follows : 

George F. Payne & Co., $3,522,638.12. 
Joseph M. Huston's commission, $185,631.90. 
George Gray Barnard, the sculptor, $100,000. 
Edwin A. Abbey, the artist, $70,000. 
Miss Violet Oakley, the artist, $20,000. 




INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 



time by insisting that all of the granite should 
be dressed on Pennsylvania soil and when this 
was satisfactorily adjusted delays were caused 
by the transportation of some of the material. 
Carloads of material were frequently side- 
tracked and other interruptions of the work 
occurred. But at no time was the delay suffi- 
cient to cause serious embarrassment to the 
contractors, and when the time limit had ex- 
pired it was found that the work was to all 
purposes complete. 

Four Legislatures met in the Capitol dur- 
ing the construction period — those of 1899, 
1 90 1, 1903 and 1905 — the last holding not 



Competing architects, $5,000. 

Expenses of the commission, $50,839.04. 

Balance turned into treasury, $45,890.94. 

In the building of the new Capitol there 
were six fatal accidents, but no note was 
taken of the numerous small accidents that 
happened from time to time, and were not of 
a serious character. At the very outset of 
the work Owen Roberts, the superintendent 
of construction, was killed by a fall of terra 
cotta wall Avhich the workingmen were tear- 
ing out. He was not supposed to be in an 
exposed position, but a large piece of terra 



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cotta suddenly fell on his head, fracturing his 
skull. Others killed from time to time were: 
William Campbell and George Johnson, 
of Harrisburg, laborers; Albert Lyter, of 
Philadelphia, an iron erector; Lucas Hoelle, 
Harrisburg, a laborer; W. Kauffman, of 
Philadelphia, a roofer. This is considered 
the smallest number of accidents that ever 
happened on the erection of a building the 
size of the Capitol. Builders estimate that 



the small area of ground on which it stands. 
In order to give it the setting which its 
height and length and breadth demand, an 
effort was made to pass a law enlarging the 
Capitol grounds. Senator Fox, of Dauphin 
county, introduced a bill appropriating 
$2,000,000 for the purpose of extending the 
park by the purchase of the ground from 
Walnut to North streets and from Fourth to 
the railroad. This bill was fairly on its way 




INSURANCE COMMISSIONER S PRIVATE OFFICE. 



there is one fatal accident for every $200,- 
000 of contract price for a building, but on 
the new Capitol there was but one man killed 
for every $800,000 of contract price. The 
Land Title building in Philadelphia cost 
$2,000,000 and seventeen men were killed 
while it was being erected, while on the Belle- 
vue-Stratford hotel, Philadelphia, which cost 
$3,000,000, twenty-two men were killed. 

When the Legislature of 1905 held its 
session, the new Capitol was practically fin- 
ished on the outside. It stood on Capitol 
Hill — a magnificent specimen of architec- 
tural beauty. But its massive proportions 
were seen to be entirely incommensurate with 



through the Legislature when it was halted 
by the cry of no funds, and never considered 
in the House. 

The furnishing of the new Capitol was not 
provided for by the act of July 18, 1901, 
authorizing the construction and completion 
of the State Capitol. For a quarter of a cen- 
tury or more, the Board of Commissioners of 
Public Grounds and Buildings have had the 
power under the law to "repair and furnish 
the chambers and committee rooms of the 
two houses of the Legislature." In the year 
1885, "the several departments of the gov- 
ernment" were included within the scope of 
that power. Payment was to be made by the 



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State Treasurer for such "repairs and fur- 
nishings," "out of any moneys in the Treas- 
ury, not otherwise appropriated, on accounts 
to be audited by the Auditor General and the 
State Treasurer in the usual manner." In 
1 90 1, the Legislature added the following 
proviso to the clause enumerating the power 
just referred to: "That expenditures allowed 
under this section shall not be so construed as 
to authorize the Commissioners of Public 



Carved panels, wainscoting, man- 
tels and designed woodwork, . . 

Bacarat cut-glass panels, 

Bronze postoffice fronts, gallery, 
railing and stairs in House and 
Senate library, screen in Treas- 
ury Department, and bronze 
trimmings on all, special fire- 
proof filing case, 

Designed glass mosaic, 

Bronze railing, 



889,940 00 
138,757 09 



400,000 00 

28,759 20 

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BANKING DEPARTMENT. 

Grounds and Buildings to complete the pres- Marble wainscoting, mantels, 

ent Capitol building." bases, 278,10947 

Under this authority, the Commissioners Constructions for flues, fireplaces, 

of Pubhc Grounds and Buildings proceeded ^t^., 21,237 59 

to furnish the new capitol. As will be seen Raised ornamentation, gilding, dec- 

in the following chapter, they furnished it in "''ating and painting 779,472 96 

keeping with the building and with the Mural art pa.ntmg, 14,660 50 

wealth and greatness of the Commonwealth. Interlockmg hardwood parquetry 

rj^, ■ 4 • r 11 floonng 142,412 47 

1 he expense mcurred IS as follows: hi- j i- . 1 -u ^ 
'^ Modelmg and sculpture with pat- 
Special designed fireproof cases for terns, 137,000 00 

filing and preserving of records Vaults and safes, 66,000 00 

and papers, $1,534,85620 Carpets, rugs, hangings and cur- 
Furniture, desks, chairs, tables, etc. 876,066 40 tains, 141044 42 

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Designed clocks and clock fittings, 

Monumental art bronze 
standards, chandeliers, 
brackets in the three 
chief departments of 
the government ( Ex- 
ecutive, Legislative and 
Judicial), main en- 
trance, dome. House, 
Senate, ante-rooms, 
caucus rooms, Su- 



32,079 20 Additions and alterations to elec- 
tric lighting throughout the 
building 71.833 00 

Cement flooring throughout the 
building to receive the finished 
parquetry flooring, 25,117 77 

Temporarj' alterations, fittings, 
carpets, electric lights, furniture, 
etc., for House and Senate com- 
mittee rooms and departments, . 45.351 16 

Labor and material furnished by 




SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE — PRIVATE OFFICE. 

preme Court room George F. Payne & Co. in con- 

and Executive recep- structing the eighth floor for the 

tion room: use of new departments and 

Standards, $436,950 40 committee rooms, 303,693 14 

Chandeliers and brack- t n- ■ i . i u 

, , , mstallmg wires tor two telephone 

ets, 630,606 95 , 1 . 

^ and two telegraph systems 

1,067,557 35 . , . ,. u ■\A- ' .^kf.h ^, 

c • 1 J • J u I » • throughout the building 17,000 73 

bpecial designed bronze electric ^ ■= 

chandeliers and brackets in the Edwin A. Abbey, account of mural 

subordinate departments, 931,965 61 art painting contract, 15,00000 

Installation of thermostats and Joseph M. Huston, account of 

valves throughout the building, architect commission, 235,000 00 

special work in connection with 

heating and ventilating, also air 

compressors, 59,4o8 00 Total, $8,179,343 06 

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Balance due J. H. 

Sanderson, decora- 
tions and paint- 
ing, $10,000 00 

Balance due J. H. 
Sanderson, accord- 
ing to letter of May 
2, 1906, not less 
than $50,000 and 
not more than, . . 

Parquetry flooring, . 

Balance due Edwin 
A. Abbey, contract 
mural painting, . . 

Balance due J. M. 
Huston, architect; 
commission, 4 per 
cent., 104,585 42 



100,000 00 
106 20 



207,887 50 



$422,579 12 



Estimates for furnishings, etc., or- 
dered by direction of the Board 
of Grounds and Buildings, and 
not yet delivered, 2,500 00 

Total for furnishings, .... $8,604,422 18 

Amount expended or to be ex- 
pended by the Capitol Commis- 
sion, $4,000,000 00 

Amount appropriated by Act of 

April 14, 1897, 550,000 00 

Total for building and fur- 
nishing, $13,154,422 18 




DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER S DEP.'\RTMENT. 



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A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CAPITOL 



THE total length of the building is 520 
feet, the breadth through the center 
line 254 feet, and through each of 
its side wings 212 feet. The building covers 
about two acres of ground and a man, walk- 



for the purpose of such a building by the 
architects of the Renaissance. In the capi- 
tals of the columns and mouldings of the en- 
tablature, the simpler forms of the Greek 
Corinthian order have been followed. Yet 




COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY LIBRARY. 



ing around the building would have to trav- 
erse half a mile. The area of the building 
is larger than that of St. Paul's in London; 
and its length is greater than that of West- 
minster Abbey. The height of the main 
horizontal line above the balustrade is 100 
feet; from the ground to the top of the 
statue on the dome, 272 feet. 

The exterior is in classic style, as adapted 

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the influence of the Roman use of it is shown 
in many particulars. The arrangement and 
forms of the windows and their several em- 
bellishments are such as were employed by 
the builders of the Italian Renaissance, while 
the dome is modeled after that of St. Peter's. 
The general result of this combination is an 
effect that is very monumental, and not less 
so because it is distinguished by reserve. 

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Standing on a slight eminence, known as 
Capitol Hill, in the wooded park of fifteen 
acres, the structure turns its principal facade 
towards the west. It rests on a basement of 
squared and smoothed stones. In general, 
the building is laid out in a main structure 
with central, north and south wings. Mas- 
sive Corinthian columns front each wing, 
monoliths of granite, weighing thirty-five 
tons each. 



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other great events in Pennsylvania history. 
An allegorical group, representing "His- 
tory," in a circular medallion, is carved im- 
mediately below the "Declaration." "Edu- 
cation," in a similar medallion, flanks "His- 
tory." "Mining" and "Agriculture" fill in 
the bottom panels on either side of the door. 
The decorated posts are studded with heads 
of men — types intended to tell future genera- 
tions the characteristics of the men who were 




FACTORY INSPECTOR S PRIVATE OFFICE. 



The three bronze doors of the capitol on 
the west front are among the finest in the 
United States. The main door "The Peo- 
ple's Portal," is i6 feet 8 inches high and 12 
feet 3 inches wide, the largest bronze door in 
the United States. It was cast in one piece, 
front and back, and weighs 12,600 pounds. 
The casting and finishing took 100 men four- 
teen months. The door is divided into pan- 
els portraying the "Landing of Penn," "The 
Signing of the Treaty with the Indians," the 
"Signing of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence," the "Signing of the Constitution," and 



immediately concerned in the building of the 
Capitol. 

The dome is surmounted by a gilt ball, sup- 
porting a bronze and gilded statue, known as 
"Miss Penn" and symbolic of the Common- 
wealth. It is poised facing the west, the 
right arm forward, and the left upholding a 
garlanded mace. The head of Miss Penn is 
272 feet above the ground. The dome rests 
upon a bed of cement overlaid with 7,000,- 
000 bricks, which foundation in turn is up- 
held by a bed of slate rock provided by na- 
ture. This massive structure stands inde- 



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pendently and would continue unimpaired if 
the rest of the building were removed or de- 
molished. The total weight of the materials 
constituting the dome is 52,000,000 pounds. 
It is said that a glass jar, sealed and contain- 
ing a Greek Testament, was buried in the 
cement at the foundation by three of the 
workmen. 

The material of which the exterior is built 
is a species of high-grade granite, known as 
"monumental," from quarries in Hardwick, 
Vermont, of which 40,000 separate pieces 
were used, weighing from one to thirty-five 



and tiers of windows show best their pattern 
of dark upon the lighter field of masonry. 
Then the projections of porticos and cornices 
reveal themselves in rich contrast to the 
plainer portions, the columns disengage them- 
selves in individual assertion, the intricacy of 
the capitol acquires additional luxuriance, the 
modeling of the various forms of ornamenta- 
tion is most delicately penciled, and the sur- 
face of the whole building is embroidered 
with surprises of shadowed color. 

Upon entering the Capitol by "The Peo- 




CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT OF MINES PRIVATE OFFICE. 



tons each. There are thirty-two magnifi- 
cent monoliths in the structure, weighing 
thirty-five tons each. A total of more 
than 400,000 cubic feet of granite 
were used on the exterior of the build- 
ing alone, or something over iioo car-loads. 
Its characteristics are a closely grained tex- 
ture, which is easily worked but subsequently 
hardens and, notwithstanding a speckle of 
bluish gray, is in it, it is of an unusual white- 
ness. In fact, from a little distance it has 
the appearance of marble, without, however, 
its glare of whiteness. In the early after- 
noon, when the sun is upon the front of the 
building and sufficiently high to cast the shad- 
ows of every form and moulding, the rows 



pie's Portal," your eyes will try the question 
whether to look up or down. You are in 
the rotunda. Above you there is an im- 
mensity of space and height — a ponderous 
mass of columns — broad and dividing stair- 
ways — proud pilasters — a crown of orna- 
ment — galleries for the tread of curious hu- 
manity — then a blue vault dotted with stars, 
to which your eyes soar like a bewildered 
bird. Every one of the rainbow's colors — 
from violet to red — is bidding for your ad- 
miration. Suddenly you see an inscription 
around the frieze of the upper and lower cor- 
nice. It Is a quotation from William Penn 
(see p. 5) : 



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There may be room there for 
such a holy experiment. for 
the nations want a prece- 
dent, and my god will make 
it the seed of a nation. that 
an example may be set up to 
the nations. that we may do 
the thing that is truly wise 

AND JUST. 
Tired of looking up so high, your eyes 



principal animals, birds, fishes, and insects na- 
tive in the State, as well as the leading indus- 
tries and occupations of the people. The 
whole is history written on the floor. 

Rising from the floor in the angles of the 
rotunda, are magnificent standards with mas- 
sive bases, tall shafts, and branching clusters 
of electric lights. They are entirely of gilt 
bronze, while those higher up on the balus- 
trade of the stair-case and balcony have 
shafts of marble. In the entrance corridor 




HKAI.TII COMMISSIONERS DEPARTMENT. 



drop. You see something strange beneath 
your feet. It is the tiled pavement. The 
tiles are a deep red, and are interspersed with 
medallions and tablets, on which may be read 
the history of Pennsylvania. The design is 
of ancient origin. It is found in St. Mark's, 
in Venice. After the Moravians had 
brought it to America, it became a lost art, 
and remained so until Henry C. Mercer, of 
Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, re- 
vived it. He it was that fashioned the floor 
of the rotunda and corridors. The four 
hundred medallions and tablets show the 



and everywhere throughout the building 
fresh examples of lanterns, standards and 
candelabra meet the eye with constant change 
of design and variety of richness. 

The corridors extending north and south 
from the rotunda communicate with the ex- 
treme wings. Their walls, wainscoted with 
marble, are divided into bays by a series of 
pilasters, the gilded capitals of which present 
an adaptation of the classic model. For the 
traditional rosettes are substituted portrait 
heads, typical of the various nationalities that 
have gone to the making of the Common- 



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wealth's composite citizenship; while the na- 
tional flower or foliage of each country repre- 
sented has been woven into the decorative de- 
signs. 

As one enters from the rotunda, the capi- 
tals, facing us, one on each side of the front 
of the arch, contain the head of Franklin, 
wreathed with oak. 



a portrait head of Heinrich Melchoir Muhl- 
enberg proclaim the German elements. 

The French influence is suggested in the 
next capitals by fleur-de-lis associated with a 
portrait of the physician and surgeon, Daniel 
Hayes Agnew. 

The Swedish element is next recorded by 
fir cones and foliage and the portrait of Gus- 




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The next pair, at right angles to them, 
adorning the first capitals within the corridor, 
commemorate the Scottish element. The 
foliage is the thistle and the portrait that of 
George Keith. 

In the following pair of capitals, the sham- 
rock proclaims the Scotch-Irish influence, and 
the portrait is that of James Logan. 

The next capitals contain the English rose 
and the portrait of Daniel Boone. 

Cornflowers in the following capitals and 



tavus Hesselius, the earliest painter and or- 
gan-builder in America. 

In the pair following, the Welsh immigra- 
tion is recalled by the leek and a portrait of 
David Jones, a famous Baptist Clergyman 
of the early days of the Province. 

The Dutch in Pennsylvania are commemo- 
rated in the next pair of capitals by means 
of tulips and a portrait of the astronomer 
and statesman, David Rittenhouse. 

The Polish element in the composite set- 



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tlement of Pennsylvania is noted by the car- 
nation and by a portrait of tbe patriot, Pu- 
laski. 

The last pair of capitals as you leave the 
corridors, or as you enter from the courts in 
the extreme wings, are decorated with corn, 
and represent the aboriginal inhabitants of 
the State. 

Entering from the north court into the 
north corridor, we are confronted with the 
portrait of the Oneida Chief, Shilcellimy. 



to Senate and House lead through elaborate 
and beautiful doorways, surmounted with 
sculptured figures. These two chambers 
present the most elaborate and artistic decor- 
ation to be found in the building outside the 
interior of the great dome. 

In the Senate chamber the predominating 
color is a dark green, relieved by gold. 
The chamber is 96 by 80 feet. The floor is 
hard wood parquetry. From the walls at 
frequent intervals four Doric pilasters, fluted 




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In the south court the Indian portrait is 
that of Teedyuscung, a Delaware Chief, 
known as "Honest John" and "War Trum- 
pet." 

In both the north and south corridors, the 
vaultings of the ceilings leave a series of 
seven lunette-shaped spaces at each side. 
These are filled with mural paintings. Lead- 
ing from the courts and corridors, heavy 
doors of costly wood open into various de- 
partment offices and into the Senate and 
House caucus rooms. 

From the great gallery running around the 
dome at the second floor, the main entrances 



in gold, rise on each side from an Irish green 
Connemara marble wainscoting to support 
the frieze. The ceiling is ribbed into curved 
recesses, elaborately gilded in quaint designs. 
Six immense gilded bronze chandeliers are 
suspended from the ceiling by massive chains 
of the same material, each chandelier sup- 
porting six great cut glass electric light 
globes. There are two large panels, out- 
lined in dull gold, on each side of the presid- 
ing officer's chair, while the entrances to the 
side rooms are through doorways of massive 
mahogany. 

In the House chamber the acme of decora- 



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tlve art seems to have been reached. It Is 
wainscoted In marble from the French Pyre- 
nees, a blend of cream and buff, clouded with 
blurs of faint rose and delicate gray. For a 
thousand years the quarry had not been 
worked and it took much persuasion to In- 
duce the aristocratic owners to allow the re- 
opening for Pennsylvania's House of Repre- 
sentatives. Eight great bronze chandeliers 
of special design are suspended from the ceil- 



ably. Above them In both chambers are cir- 
cular windows of stained glass. The sub- 
jects embodied In this decoration In glass are 
in the Senate, in order from the right of the 
President's chair: 

Weaving: holding a shuttle. 
Temperance: pouring water from a pitcher. 
Glass-blowing: characterized by the glass- 
blower's pipe. 




DEPARTiMENT OF PUBLIC GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 



ing, which has a background of solid blue, 
with arabesque wrought in heavy gold. 
From the walls project eighteen brackets, 
supporting candelabra. The elongated vault 
which overhangs the broad central arch bears 
a gilded tablet, facing the Speaker's chair, 
with the following text In blue letters : 

AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND 
THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 

The windows of both the Senate and 
House, facing as they do, the east and the 
west, admit the direct sunlight and show the 
brilliancy of the color scheme most admlr- 



Peace: bearing an olive branch. 

Railroads: a train passing in the background. 

Continuing on opposite side of the room: 

Militia : the bayonet symbolizing its military 
purpose; the keystone, that it is a civic organiza- 
tion. 

Legislature: with the Roman emblem of au- 
thority, the "fasces," a bundle of sticks bound to- 
gether around an axe, symbolizing the power to 
bind the social units into an organized whole, and 
to punish infringements of the system. 

History: holding a scroll. 

Foundries : including a landscape with foun- 
dries in the distance. 



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Architecture: with a representation of the 
dome of the Capitol of Pennsylvania. 

In the House in the same order: 

Steel and Iron : an old man with hydraulic 
hammer. 

Education: garbed in cap and gown, with a 
suggestion of a university building. 

Petroleum : showing the staging over an oil- 
well. 



Chemistry: symbolized by a retort. 
Electricity: grasping a thunderbolt. 

In the artistic beauty of walls and furnish- 
ment the suite of apartments assigned to the 
Governor of the Commonwealth are the 
finest in the Capitol. The private office of 
the Governor is a room 35 by 30 feet, wains- 
coted to a height of 1 1 feet in American 
quartered oak, carved in rich and costly de- 




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Abundance: holding a cornucopia, or horn of 
plenty. 

Commerce: with the emblems, a globe and sail. 

Steam Engineering: showing an arrangement 
of steam pipes. 

Religion : with the Cross. 

Continuing on the opposite side of the 
room : 

Printing Press: a boy holding a proof-sheet 
just pulled from the press. 

Liberty: with the cap and flag of Liberty. 

Justice: with scales. 

Natural Gas: spouting from a pipe. 

Bridge-building: showing a bridge in the back- 
ground. 



sign. The mantel is of African marble, the 
shelf supported by fan carytides. The recep- 
tion room Is of English crotched oak, though 
not so elaborate In design. The woodwork 
of the suite, even to the rooms reserved for 
the executive clerks, is all of the same ma- 
terial and finish. In the passageway which 
affords a private entrance from the Gov- 
ernor's room Into the official reception room 
Is a book-elevator, communicating with the 
Library of Records In the office of the Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth. In the center of 
the over-mantel In the reception room, com- 
memorating the origin of the State, appears 
the coat-of-arms of WlUIam Penn, — a lion 



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above a shield, on the bar of which are three 
balls, while from its extremities hangs a rib- 
bon with the motto: Diim clavum rectum 
teneam — "So long as I hold the right key." 
Around one side of the shield Is a laurel 
branch symbolic of distinguished merit, on 
the other an oak garland of civic virtue. To 
the right appears the shield of the United 
States, and to the left that of Pennsylvania, 
while below is the name of Penn, with the 
dates — 1644 and 17 18 — of his birth and 
death. 



The Supreme Court room is on the east 
wing, at the far end of the fourth floor cor- 
ridor, a location suggestive of the theory of 
checks and balances in our government in its 
distance from the hustle and bustle of the 
lawmakers and the business of the executive. 
The chamber is about eighty feet long, run- 
ning across the corridor and about forty feet 
wide. It is Greek in detail and finished in 
rich mahogany with a dais at the north end. 
The crowning feature is the dome, covered 
with ornate designs in green and light yel- 














DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE. 



The Lieutenant Governor's suite consists 
of three rooms — a private office, a reception 
room and the ladies' parlor. The conspicu- 
ous feature in the first two rooms are the 
mantels, the first of Numidian marble, the 
second of Irish green. The ceiling of the 
private office, divided into three oblong cof- 
fers, is treated in tones of reddish and gray- 
ish purple and gold. The ladies' parlor has 
a scheme of lighter elegance, the style of 
Louis Quinze. The ceiling contains a circu- 
lar painting of Venus and two Loves, by 
Donald MacGregor. 



low glass, affording a subdued effect. From 
floor to ceiling, on every side, rise massive 
columns of carved mahogany. For beauty 
this chamber is not surpassed in the new 
State House. 

So far as the designs of everything in the 
structure are concerned, they are of special 
creative workmanship. Every chair, clock, 
chandelier, divan and mantel are in harmo- 
nious design with the apartment as a whole. 
The clocks in every office are of mahogany, 
shaped like a keystone, or where other de- 
signs have been used the dial is wrought in 



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FISH COMMISSIONER S DEPARTMENT. 



bronze, to represent the coat of arms of the 
Commonwealth. The chairs and desks are 
carved from oak, mahogany or wahiut. They 
conform to the decorations of each depart- 
ment. It will be impossible in the future for 
anyone to remove a chair from, say, the Gov- 
ernor's offices to another part of the building 
without noting the lack of harmony with the 
furniture of the other chamber. The three 
requisites for architectural perfection — form, 
color and proportion — mark every feature of 
the vast edifice and give to it beauty and sym- 
metry. 

There are 475 rooms in the Capitol. 
Their arrangement, entering from the south 
wing is as follows : 

First Floor. 

South wing — Auditor General. 

South corridor — State Treasury and House Li- 
brary, caucus room and offices. 

East wing — State Police. 

North corridor — Department of Public Grounds 
and Buildings, Senate Library and offices and De- 
partment of Health. 



North wing — Department of Health, Depart- 
ment of Printing, Soldiers' Orphans School Com- 
mission. 

Entresol. 

South wing — Department of Public Instruction. 
North wing — Land Office and drafting room of 
the Department of Internal Affairs. 

Second Floor. 

South wing — Governor, Attorney General. 
Rotunda — Senate and House and Lieutenant 
Governor. 

North wing — Department of Internal Affairs. 

Third Floor. 

South wing — State Department. 

North wing — Department of Agriculture, Dairy 
and Food, Forestry, Zoology Divisions, Game and 
Fish Commission, Forestry Commission. 



Fourth Floor. 



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nsurance and 



South wing — Adjutant General, 
Banking Departments. 

North wing — Factory Inspection, Fisheries De- 
partment, Highway Department. 

East wing — Supreme and Superior Court ; court 
chamber and offices. 



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Fifth Floor. 

Drafting rooms of Highway Department, labor- 
atory and specimen rooms of Zoology Division, com- 
mittee rooms and storage. 

The building is equipped with a generating 
plant for electric lighting and power, two 
telephone and two telegraph exchanges, and 
sundry signaling systems. The generating 
plant consists of four 150 kilowatt direct con- 
nected units, operating at 230 volts. The 
white marble switch board is of unique de- 
sign. Instead of the usual complement of 
straight panels, the center one is made in the 
form of a keystone, to represent the State of 
Pennsylvania. On this are mounted the pres- 
sure gauges for both steam and electricity. 
The panel to the left marked "Street" con- 
tains switches so arranged that the light or 
the power load, or both, may be thrown 
either on the generating plant or on the street 
connection of the Harrisburg Central Station. 
As the switches are shown in the cut, both 
the light and power load are on the generators 
The next four panels marked "i," "2," "3" 
and "4" are for the four generators which 
are connected to them by means of lead cables 
of 1,200,000 circular mils capacity, carried 
in concrete ducts under the floor of the en- 
gine room. The generator panels are of the 



usual design. The two blank panels on the 
extreme left are intended for additional units 
to be installed at some future time. The first 
panel to the right of the Keystone contains 
switches for all of the power circuits and a 
watt-meter for measuring the power con- 
sumed on these circuits. The next panel con- 
tains the switches for the night circuits and 
a watt-meter for measuring the total current 
consumed in all the lighting circuits. The 
next four panels marked "Interior" contain 
the circuit switches for the various centers of 
distribution throughout the building. The 
blank panel on the extreme right is intended 
for the switches controlling the outside light- 
ing circuits. The distribution of current 
throughout the building is on the 220-volt, 
two wire system. There are sixty-one panel 
boards or centers of distribution in the build- 
ing, from which the branch circuits are car- 
ried to the lights. The doors are made of 
heavy plate glass. All of the wires are rub- 
ber insulated carried in iron conduits. 

The telephone service — a complete long 
distance connection for both the Bell Tele- 
phone service and that of the United Tele- 
phone & Telegraph Company — was installed 
in each important room in the building, there 
being 327 rooms which are equipped with 




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"Bird." 

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long distance connections for both telephone 
systems. 

The telegraph system consists of call boxes 
in 278 rooms for both the Western Union 
and the Postal Telegraph Company. The 
signal system comprises push buttons on each 
desk in both the Senate and the House, indi- 
cating on annunciators located in the ante- 
rooms, and in addition there are various sys- 
tems of call bells, so arranged that they may 
be operated to ring in the committee rooms 
by the clerks of the Senate and House when 
sessions are called to order. All of the wires 
throughout the building, not only for lighting 
and power, but for the telephone, telegraph 
and signal systems are carried in iron pipes 
so that they may be removed without disturb- 
ing the finish in the building. 

To construct and furnish the Capitol of 
Pennsylvania, which ranks with the greatest 
of monumental edifices in America, every con- 
tinent on the globe contributed in some 
way, in wood, metal, marble, glass or other 
material, to its beautiful perfection, while ar- 
tists and sculptors of world-wide repute have, 
with brush or chisel, helped to make the mas- 
sive pile what it is. 

The following extract from a letter, shows 



the kind of impression Pennsylvania's Capi- 
tol makes upon a European traveler in this 
country : 

The Capitol, which in its mass of granite reigns 
over the city, seems to throw a shadow of power 
and richness over everything. The outlines equal 
in beauty any of the beautiful monuments passing 
into posterity. The gardens which surround it look 
like an immense basket of foliage and flowers. As 
to the interior, at the entrance the eye is captivated 
by the luxuriant profusion of the material used in 
the construction. In the day time when the sun 
sends its rays through the windows, or in the even- 
ing, when the electric lights lighten it up, the place 
reminds one of the palace, described in the Arabian 
Nights, of 100 1 Nights. The gold running down 
the marble and Mosaique sparkle like precious 
stones, while the bronzes shine with a glimmer more 
sober and mj'stic. From the bottom to the top an 
apotheosis to the joys of light and color. The 
ground floor also, by an idea, happy as well as orig- 
inal, is paved in the antique style, here and there 
inlaid with mosaique, representing the animals of 
fable. 

The strong layers of the marble pillars in the 
Grecian style, give one the idea of an unchange- 
able strength. The ceilings (acaisons) (incased) in 
the Italian renaissance style with their colors, add 
to the graceful richness which is revealed in the 
higher parts of the monument. The central stair- 



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case in bluish marble is monumental. It will no 
doubt evoke others in similar style. But it seems 
so well in its place in the grandiose decorum, that 
one should wish to see royal trains with fanfare 
and trompettes pass along it. The annex where the 
phantasy has had free play, where precious materials 
are used at profusion, do not give way in richness 
to the decoration of the rotunda. I have much ad- 
mired the Hall of the Governor in carved wood, 
and the chimney pieces in the Middle Age style are 
grand, although a little heavy considering the 
height. The halls of the Representatives and the 
Senators are each in its way a chef d'oeuvre. The 
comfort seems assured in all their details. One 
could perhaps find a little fault in the exaggeration 
and overdoing in gilding and ornamentation. In 
my opinion, a little reticence in certain things would 
have shown up others to more advantage. The 
law of contrast is sometimes necessary. It is to be 
hoped that time will put its coating over the whole, 
which could then only be improved, when all that is 
new and loud will be softened down. But the 
Capitol as it is, will remain a jewel, of which a na- 
tion may be proud, particularly as it is the work 
of one of its citizens. The man who has achieved 
and executed this monument is a genius, and may 



rank among the first artists of the eighteenth and 
nineteenth century. I wish you could yourself see 
and admire this edifice when finished. It is a real 
artistic treat. 

The work of painter and sculptor in the 
beautiful building is so rich in effect — aes- 
thetically, historically, and ethically — that 
it deserves some space in this description. 

The sculpture of George Gray Barnard 
found in and about the Capitol follows the 
idea in the commission given him, to re- 
flect the spirit of Pennsylvania men and 
women in all the various phases of life. Mar- 
ble groups show types of the pioneers who 
settled the State. Two axterior groups of 
figures are placed at the right and left re- 
spectively of the main entrance of the Capi- 
tol. One group represents obedience to the 
law; the other disobedience; or "Life's Joys" 
and "Life's Woes." There are thirty-three 
figures in the two groups — some colossal in 
size, others life. Mr. Barnard made his 
models in Moret, near Paris, while the figures 




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ELECTRIC SWITCH BOARD. 

themselves were chiseled out of marble in the Foundation of the State of the Liberty Spirit- 
great quarries of Carrara, Italy. ual," used in the decoration of the Governor's 
The subject of the mural paintings of Ed- reception room. Sixteen panels of canvas 
win Austin Abbey in the Capitol is "The compose the frieze. The series begins with 
Romance of the Founding of the State," and the translation and printing of the Bible by 
it starts in the Reception Room of the Gov- Tyndale, the smuggling of it into England, 
ernor and runs through the corridor. House, the burning of it at Oxford, his martyrdom. 



Senate and Superior Court room to the 
dome. The subjects for these pictures begin 
with the early dreams of William Penn, show- 
ing him seated at Oxford, building those first 
castles in the air which resulted in the found- 
ing of Pennsylvania. The founder is shown 
on his way to America in the ship Welcome, 



Then follow panels illustrative of the spread 
of the Bible and of Puritanism and of the 
Civil War. Next come George Fox and 
William Penn. A number of panels deal 
with Penn — his conversion to the Quaker doc- 
trine while at Oxford, his expulsion from 
home, his preaching and arrest, his imprison- 



the landing scene, in making friends with ment at Newgate, his dream of an asylum 



ui 

the Indian, and in other episodes of his life. 

Other paintings show the early life of the 
pioneers, the development of the coal and 
iron mines, and the building of the great 
shops and forges. All of these scenes are in- 
terspersed with portraits of the men prom- 
inent in the development of the State — her 
great jurists and statesmen and warriors. 

In the Supreme Court chamber are placed 
scenes symbolical of "Traditional Law," 
"Written Law," "Roman Law," and "Jus- 
tice." 

The series of mural paintings which was 



across the sea, the signing of the charter of 
Pennsylvania by the King, and, finally, Penn's 
landing on the soil of his province. Miss 
Oakley's part is, as it were, the first chapter 
in Mr. Abbey's "Romance of the Founding 
of the State." 

The series of paintings to adorn the north 
corridor are the work of John W. Alexander. 
They show how the face of the State has 
changed since the days of its settlement — how 
it looked long ago and how it looks now. 

The paintings of William B. Van Ingen, 
in the south corridor, form a beautiful por- 
committed to Miss Violet Oakley is "The tion of the artistic adornment of the new State 

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house. They are Ilkistrative of the racial 
and religious elements of Pennsylvania. The 
titles of the pictures are: 

German emigrants from the Palatinate arriving 
on the Sara Alaria. 

The "pedalavium" or feet washing ceremony of 
the Mennonites. 

A Rosicrucian monk. 

A Moravian sister preaching to the Indians. 

A brother of the Ephrata community transcribing 
the Declaration of Independence for the Congress 
of the United States. 



The open air baptism of the Dunkers. 

Printing the Bible. 

Sisters of the Ephrata community spinning and 
carding. 

"Gloria Dei," the Old Swedes Church. 

The bonfires lighted by the early settlers on 
Christmas eve. 

The trombone choir of the "Unitas Fratrum." 

The Scotch-Irish teaching theology in "Log 
College." 

Pastorius and the first petition circulated in the 
colonies for the abolition of slavery. 




"Cobbler." 
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CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT 

The following firms and individuals deserve credit for the part they have 

taken in the construction and equipment of the new State 

Capitol of Pennsylvania 



Architect, Joseph M. Huston, Philadelphia. 

Assistant to Mr. Huston, Stanford B. Lewis. 

General Contractors, Geo. F. Payne & Co., 
Philadelphia. 

Granite Work, Woodbury Granite Company, 
Hardwick, Vt. 

Granite Setting, C. F. Parsons, New York. 

Electrical Equipment, Keller-Pike Company, 
Philadelphia. 

Engines, Harrisburg Foundry & Machine Com- 
pany, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Interior Marble Work, The Robert C. Fisher 
Company, New York. 

Bronze Work, Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, 
Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 

Metallic Furniture, Penn Construction Com- 
pany, Marietta, Pa. 

Elevators, Morse, Williams & Company, Phila- 
delphia. 

Cast Plaster Work and Modeling, Buehler & 
Lauter, New York. 

Glass, Painting and Interior Decorating, D. A. 
MacGregor & Bro., Philadelphia. 

Furniture, Electroliers, Carpets and Rugs, John 
H. Sanderson, Philadelphia. 

Interior Wood and Cabinet M-^ork, A. Wilt & 
Sons, Philadelphia; American Car and Foundry 
Company, Wilmington, Del., William Russel ; 
F. D. Kramer & Son, Philadelphia. 

Hardivare, C. J. Field's Sons, Philadelphia. 

Sculpture, George Gray Barnard. 

Mural Paintings and Decorations, Miss Violet 
Oakley ; Edwin A. Abbey ; John W. Alexander ; 
W. B. Van Ingen ; Donald MacGregor. 

Assistant and Supervisor to the Capitol Commis- 
sion, Bernard R. Green, Superintendent of the 
Congressional Library, Washington. 

Excavating, United Ice and Coal Company, Har- 
risburg. 

Concrete Foundation, Vulcanite Paving Com- 
pany, Philadelphia. 

Rough Masonry Walls and Brick fVork, Jo- 
seph Bechtel, Philadelphia. 

Structural Steel fFork, American Bridge Com- 
pany, Pencoyd, Pa. 



Fire Proofing and Terra Cotta, National Fire- 
proof Company, Philadelphia. 

Ornamental Iron Work, William F. Remppis, 
Philadelphia. 

Wire Furring, Merritt & Co., Philadelphia. 

Plastering, Plain and Ornamental, J. W. & C. 
H. Reeves, Philadelphia. 

Window Frames and Sash, Harrisburg Plan- 
ing Mill Company. 

Dynamos, C. & C. Company, New York. 

Boilers, E. Keeler & Co., Williamsport, Pa. 

Steam Fitting, Plumbing and Ventilating, Rob- 
ert Scott Engineering Company, Philadelphia 

Tile Work, Joseph S. Miller & Co., Philadel- 
phia. 

Tile Floor, Moravian, Henry C. Mercer, Doyles- 
town. Pa. 

Roofing and Skylights, Meade Roofing and Cor- 
nice Company, Philadelphia. 

Terra Cotta on Dome, Armstrong & Conkling, 
Philadelphia. 

Cement Floors and Pavements, Vulcanite Pav- 
ing Co. and Filbert Paving Co., Philadelphia. 

Steel Setting, The Etter Erecting Company, 
Philadelphia. 

Plumbing, Wm. Anderson, Philadelphia. 

IVood Floors, Jas. G. Wilson Manufacturing 
Company, Norfolk, Va. 

Temperature Regulator, Johnson Service Com- 
pany, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Ornamental Stained Glass, Alfred Godwin, 
Philadelphia. 

Designer of Ornamental Stained Glass Windo%vs 
in House and Senate, W. B. Van Ingen, New 
York. 

General Hardivare, Henry Gilbert & Son, Har- 
risburg. 

Brick, Bigler & Co., Harrisburg. 

Foundation Stone, Hummelstown Brownstone 
Company. 

Lime and Cement, B. G. Galbraith, Harrisburg. 

For more extended notices of individuals and 
firms who had most to do in the construction and 
equipment of the State Capitol, see pages following 
portraits of State officials. 



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THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CAPITOL 



HARRISBURG has had many great strand" — have been in session in the Capital 
days in its history — occasions when City of Pennsylvania. But of all the gather- 
it had been on tip-toe of anticipa- ings — great and small — of people from the 
tion and expectancy for days, weeks and State and Nation, the one that came together 




ELECTRIC SWITCH BOARD PANEL. 



months before, but October fourth, in the 
year one thousand nine hundred and six, was 
the greatest of them all. It was the day of 
the dedication of the new Capitol. History 
has been written in Harrisburg — many chap- 
ters of it. Conventions of all kinds — from 
naming a President of the United States to 
sending a missionary "to India's coral 



to dedicate the magnificent structure on Capi- 
tol Hill, will remain the longest on the scroll 
of these events. For it was written in blaz- 
ing letters of glory. The sixty thousand peo- 
ple that came from the four corners of the 
State were not delegates. The dedication was 
an affair of pure democracy. Everybody that 
wanted to come, could do so and wear a 



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"Logan." 

CAPITAL IN CORRIDOR. 

badge — the badge of citizenship. And many Transfer of the Capitol to the 

more would have come had the heavens been Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by 

more propitious and not opened the flood- Building Commission. Address by 

gates of rain early in the morning and kept the President of the Building Com- 

them open all day long. Rain was the only ™'^f °"' ^ill'am A. Stone. 

, . . 1 J J- ^- Acceptance and address by the 
unwelcome visitor present at the deaication. ^ r . r-' t^u r 
_ , • , r 1 1 J 1 Crovernor of the Commonwealth ot 
On the evening before the sun had scarcely Pennsylvania, Samuel W. Penny- 
sunk behind the Cumberland hills, before the packer. 

Capitol and the Hill blazed out in electric Oration by the President of the 

glory. Bright lights glowed in the dome, United States, Theodore Roosevelt, 

glittered in the legislative halls, and dazzled Benediction by the Bishop of Har- 

in the rotunda and the corridors, and inspir- risburg, the Right Reverend James 

ing music contributed additional charm. Henry Darlington. 

Tiny lamps also shone from amidst flower- 12.30 P. M.— Military Parade, 

beds, shrubs and trees, and vari-colored Afternoon. 

globes hung on ropes stretched along the Inspection of the Capitol. 

walks and terraces. The park was a verita- ^^'^"^''^ ^y Walter Damrosch and the New York 

ble fairy-land. The city had likewise pre- Symphony Orchestra. 

J r r 1 J u \\r Part I— At 2 P. M. 

pared a feast for the eye and he ear. A Ve- ^^^ ^1^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^.^p.^^j^ 

netian canopy ,_ erected in Market Square, and j_ up;^ Meistersinger," Wagner 

festoons of lights around the Square and ^ Prelude. 

along Market street, together with a concert j, pj-j^e Song. 

by the Commonwealth Band, gave added c Dance of the Apprentices. 

pleasure to that which the State had pro- 2. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss 

vided. Nor was all this illumination and 3- Allegretto from the 8th Symphony, .Beethoven 

music for the people of Harrisburg alone. 4- Suite, 'Teer Gynt," No. i, Grieg 

Thousands of visitors from the State were ^ I" the Morning. 

already there to see and hear it. ^ Anita's Dance 

T^, 11-^ • vu r c In the Halls ot the Mountain King. 

I he dedicatory ceremonies, with a rew ex- ^^ o r-. -i- A j 

■' . , ,. 1 5- Hymn to St. Cecilia, Lrounod 

ceptions, were carried out according to the . xt • -iir jj- u • n ■ 

Y, ■ 6. Norwegian Wedding Procession, Gneg 

following program : ^ M^^^h, "Aida," Verdi 

Morning. Part II— At 4 P. M. 

11.30 A. M. — Reading from the Scriptures by John (On the Grand Stand.) 

H. Dillingham, of the Society of 8. Overture, "Tannhauser," PFagner 

Friends, after which silence for a 9. Allegro con gazia from Pathetique symphony, 

few moments is requested. Tshaikowsky 

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10. a "Whisperings Among the Flowers, 

Von Blon 

b "Cavalry Ride," Rubenstein 

1 1 . Largo, Handel 

12. Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner 

13. Dances from "Nell Gwynn," German 

14. Suite from "Carmen," Bizet 

15. Overture, "Mignon," Thomas 

Evening. 

6.00-7.00 P. M. — Music by Kendle's First Regi- 
ment Band in the Grand Stand. 

7.30-9.30 P. M. — Band Concerts in the Riverside 
Parks. Bands will be stationed 
at or near Walnut Street, the 
Executive Mansion, Liberty, 
Foster and Reily Streets. 
8.00 P. M. — Fire Works on Hargest's Island, 
Susquehanna river, opposite the 
center of the city ; these can be 
seen from any point in the Riv- 
erside Parks from Walnut to 
Boas Streets. 



The first and most exciting event of the 
day was the arrival of the President of the 
United States. A great throng had congre- 
gated at the Union Station to get the first 
ghmpse. At 1 1 o'clock the train rolled In 
and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired. 
The President was received by Mayor Gross, 
Auditor General Snyder, State Treasurer 
Berry, State Senators Fox and Sproul, 
Speaker Walton and Secretaries Jones and 
Lynch, of the Capitol Commission. As the 
party walked out of the depot the chimes In 
the ZIon Lutheran Church rang out "The 
Star Spangled Banner." The Governor's 
Troop swung Into line back of the detail of 
the State constabulary, and with the carriages 
following, took up the march, out Market to 
Market Square, up Second to North, to 




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'Cricket.' 



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Fourth, around the Capitol to the main front 
entrance, where the President was met by 
Governor Pennypacker. As they ascended 
the steps, the President remarked: 

"By jove, Governor, these are fine bronze 
doors." Inside he again broke forth in ad- 
miration and said, "This is the handsomest 
State Capitol I ever saw." 

In the rotunda the President received a 
solid gold souvenir badge from the Governor 
on behalf of Pennsylvania, and one from 
Mayor Gross, on behalf of Harrisburg. The 
ceremony was short and simple. After in- 
specting a portion of the Capitol the presi- 
dential party proceeded to the grandstand at 
Third and State streets. The party consisted 
of the President, the Governor, John H. Dil- 
lingham, Bishop Darlington, Hon. W. A. 
Stone, Joseph M. Huston, United States Sen- 
ator Penrose, United States Senator Knox, 
Senator Sproul, Speaker Walton, Surgeon 
General Rixey, Mr. Latta, Assistant Secre- 
tary to President; Senator Fox, George F. 
Payne, State Treasurer Berry, Auditor Gen- 



eral Snyder, Hon. William H. Graham, Ed- 
ward Bailey, Chief Justice Mitchell, Justice 
Brown, Justice Mestrezat, Justice Potter, 
Justice Elkin, Justice Stewart, Lieutenant 
Governor .Brown, Dr. Schaeffer, Superinten- 
dent of Public Instruction ; Attorney General 
Carson, State Librarian Montgomery, Pro- 
vost Harrison, of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania ; Hon. George T. Oliver, Hon. J. 
Donald Cameron, Adjutant General Stewart, 
General Gregg, Congressman Olmsted, Cap- 
tain Groome, Hon. Charles Emory Smith, 
Hon. Vance C. McCormick, Mayor Gross, 
Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia; Dr. Sam- 
uel G. Dixon, Charles H. Heustis, J. L. Mc- 
Grew, R. O. Bailey, R. H. Hazard, R. V. 
Ouluhan, Julian M. Cochrane, H. H. Stro- 
meyer, James H. Sloan, Jr., S. A. Connell, 
Bromley Wharton, Thomas J. Lynch, 
Thomas McD. Jones, Edgar C. Gerwig, Ber- 
nard R. Green, Hon. W. I. Wilcox and 
others. 

As the President stepped into view of the 
crowd, cheer after cheer rang out and men 
waved their hats and women their handker- 




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chiefs, the band meanwhile playing "Hail to 
the Chief." At the left of the President sat 
the Governor, and at the right Bishop Dar- 
lington. In the rear were United States Sen- 
ators Knox and Penrose, with other members 
of the presidential party, members of the Su- 
preme Court, the Capitol Commission, the 
committee representing the Legislature, and 
the Governor's staff in full uniform. 

The dedication exercises were begun in a 
driving rain. Governor Pennypacker acted 
as master of ceremonies and introduced the 
speakers. John H. Dillingham, of the So- 
ciety of Friends, in Philadelphia, opened the 
exercises with Scripture reading. He was se- 
lected at the request of the Governor, who 
deemed it fitting to have one of that denom- 
ination present. Mr. Dillingham said when 
he was presented: "I will read brief selec- 
tions from the Holy Scriptures, trusting that 
it is in the heart of not a few of us in coming 
here, to dedicate both in this temple of gov- 
ernment, and in our bodies as temples of the 
Holy Spirit, only whatsoever things are hon- 
orable, whatsoever things are just, whatso- 
ever things are pure, whatsoever things are 
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; 
if there be any virtue, and if there be any 
praise, and to think of these things." Then 
the speaker read from Lamentations iii, 40- 
41; II Chronicles vi, 13, 14, 18, 29, 30 and 
31 ; Psalms cvi, 4; Heb. xii, i and 2; Isaiah 
xli, I. The last was as follows: "Keep si- 
lence before me, O islands, and let the people 
renew their strength; let them come near; 
then let them speak; let us come near to- 
gether to judgment." Then he closed his 
book and stood with bowed head, everyone 
rising for silent prayer. 

Ex-Governor Stone then stepped forth, 
and as president of the Building Commission, 
transferred the Capitol to the Commonwealth 
in the following address : 

The Capitol building was constructed by au- 
thority of the Act of Assembly approved July 18, 
1 90 1, which appropriated $4,000,000 for the re- 
moval of the old building and the construction of 
the new. 

This act vested the authority of construction in a 
commission of five persons who were to have the 

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building completed by the first day of January, 
igo6, William H. Graham, of Allegheny, Pa.; 
W. P. Snyder, of Chester county, Pa.; N. C. 
Schaeffer, of Lancaster, Pa. ; Edward Bailey, of 
Harrisburg, Pa., and myself, constituted this com- 
mission. Our first meeting was held on August 20, 
1 90 1, at which time I became the president of the 
commission; Mr. Bailey, treasurer; E. C. Ger- 
wig, of Allegheny, Pa., secretary; Robert K. 
Young, of Wellsboro, Pa., solicitor, and T. Larry 
Eyre, of West Chester, Pa., superintendent. 

Advertisements were inserted in the leading news- 
papers of the State, asking architects to submit plans 
and specifications, the commission agreeing to give 
the architect whose plans and specifications should 
be adopted, 5 per cent, commission on the cost of 
the building, for the supervision of its construction ; 
and the architects submitting the five next best plans 
in the opinion of the commission were to receive 
$1,000 each. 

Prof. W. R. Ware, a professor of architecture 
in the Columbia University, and a man whose repu- 
tation as a judge of architecture is not excelled in 
this country, was employed to pass upon the plans 
and specifications submitted by the architects in re- 
sponse to our advertisements. All knowledge of the 
name of the architects presenting plans and specifica- 
tions was withheld from Professor Ware and the 
commission. These plans and specifications were 
known from the time they came into the possession 
of the commission by number. 

After thorough and complete examination of the 
ten sets of plans and specifications submitted. Pro- 
fessor Ware reported to the commission that they 
could safely select any one of four different plans. 
The commission then, without knowing whose 
plans they were, decided upon a certain set of plans 
which they adopted, and it was after this decision 
had been made that they became aware that the 
chosen plans had been submitted by Joseph M. 
Huston, of Philadelphia. 

We then employed Bernard R. Green, superin- 
tendent of the Congressional Library at Washing- 
ton, D. C, a man who had supervised the construc- 
tion of many buildings for the Government, as an 
assistant and adviser to the commission. Mr. Hus- 
ton, with Mr. Green's assistance, then worked out 
the specifications in detail and advertisements were 
inserted in the leading newspapers of the country 
calling for bids by contractors to furnish all the ma- 
terial and construct the building in accordance with 
the plans and specifications. Six bids were submit- 
ted. The lowest bidder was George F. Payne & 
Co., of Philadelphia, and they being otherwise sat- 

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isfactory and furnishing the necessary bond re- 
quired by law, were awarded the contract. 

A little more than a year was consumed in the 
preparation of specifications, in making different ex- 
aminations and tests of granite and by the bidders 
in examination of plans and specifications, before the 
contract was executed. 

The history of the construction of this building 
is generally known to the people of the State, as the 
newspapers have made frequent reference to it in 
their columns. 

The commission met once a month, at which 
meetings the contractors, the architect and Mr. 
Green made reports as to the condition and progress 
of the work. We have had our allotted number 
of strikes, several accidents and a number of delays, 
caused by the weather, the failure of subcontractors 
to deliver material and from other causes. The 
building was substantially completed some weeks 
before the time specified in the law. 

The law under which the building was con- 
structed contemplated a completed building, ready 
for occupancy. We found that in addition to the 
money necessary for that purpose we could spare 
$igo,ooo for decorations. Contracts were there- 
fore made with Miss Violet Oakley, George Gray 
Barnard and Edward A. Abbey for mural paintings 
and sculpture. 

The amount paid and to be paid to the contrac- 
tors, George F. Payne & Co., is $3,522,638.12; the 
amount to Miss Violet Oakley is $20,000; the 
amount to George Gray Barnard, $100,000; the 
amount to Edwin A. Abbey is $70,000; the archi- 
tect's commission amounts to $185,631.90; the 
amount paid to competing architects is $5,000. The 
expenses of the commission, including salaries to 
employees, amount to $50,839.04, leaving in the 
hands of the commission $45,890.94. 

A further expenditure of money will be necessary 
in placing in the building the sculpture and paint- 
ings contracted for and not yet completed, and prob- 
ably other small items. What this amount will be 
cannot be determined at present, but there will be 
from $30,000 to $40,000 unexpended, which will be 
turned back to the State by the commission. 

Such, in brief, is the history of the construction 
of this building. The building speaks for itself, 
and it is very gratifying to the commission to find 
that it is generally accepted and approved by the 
people of the State. We claim no special credit for 
the work. We have simply done the best we could 
with the money appropriated, and the acceptance 
and approval of our work, by the people, is our suf- 
ficient reward. 



The commission has not stinted the work in time 
nor attention in any particular. The members have 
been prompt and regular in their attendance at all 
meetings. They have manifested great interest and 
zeal, and I do not believe they could have given 
any more attention to the building or taken any 
greater interest in it if it had been their own. 

The commission has been harmonious from its 
first meeting. There have never been any serious 
disputes or jealousy or bitterness or strife. Upon 
frequent occasions there have been differences of 
opinions as to action, but when those differences 
were voted upon the minority has readily acquiesced 
and accepted the situation and done just as much to 
carry out the wishes of the majority as if they had 
been their own. 

The selection of the architect and contractors 
was exceedingly fortunate. They have been im- 
bued with the same zeal and the same interest and 
have done their best. And the same may be said 
of the officers of the commission, and I doubt very 
much whether Mr. Green took any greater interest 
in the construction of the Congressional Library or 
any other Government building than he has in this. 

This occasion does not justify me in making any 
extended remarks. Having briefly made a report 
of our work, my mission is ended. And now, in be- 
half of the commission, I tender you, sir, as Gover- 
nor of the State, the building, and hope that it will 
not only meet with your approval, but the approval 
of all the people of our State. 

As soon as the applause which followed 
the conclusion of the address had ceased, Mr. 
Stone took the golden key from its bed of 
velvet in the keystone-shaped casket, and 
handed it to Governor Pennypacker. He 
held the key aloft that the vast throng could 
see it and cheer the act of delivery. 

Governor Pennypacker in accepting the 
Capitol, said: 

The Capitol is much more than the building in 
which the Legislature holds its sessions, the courts 
sit in judgment and the E.xecutive exercises his au- 
thority. It is a concrete manifestation of the im- 
portance and power of the State and an expression 
of its artistic development. Intelligent observers 
who look upon the structure and examine the pro- 
portions, the arrangements and the ornamentation 
are enabled to divine at what stage in the advance 
of civilization the people have arrived and to de- 
termine with sufficient accuracy what have been 
their achievements in the past and what are their 
aspirations for the future. 



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"Bat: 

TILE DESIGN. 



The commission charged with the duty of erect- 
ing this Capitol and those who have had responsi- 
bility in connection with it have felt that in archi- 
tecture and appointments the outcome ought to be 
worthy of the Commonwealth. They have not for- 
gotten the essential and unique relation which Penn- 
sylvania has borne in the development of our na- 
tional life; that in her first Capitol the Govern- 
ment of the United States had its birth ; that during 
ten years of the early and uncertain existence of 
that Government she gave it a home ; that since its 
origin what has ever been accepted as the "Pennsyl- 
vania idea" has been the dominant political principle 
of its administration and that its present unparal- 
leled material prosperity rests finally in large meas- 
ure upon the outcome of her furnaces and mines. 

Nor have they forgotten that the thought of Wil- 
liam Penn, enunciated over two centuries ago and 
rewritten around the dome of this Capitol, has be- 
come the fundamental principle of our national 
Constitution, acknowledged now by all men as ax- 
iomatic truth. 

There is a sermon which the many Americans 
who hie hither in the future years to study chaste 
art expressed in form, as to-day they go to the Par- 
thenon and St. Peter's, to the cathedrals of Antwerp 
and Cologne, will be enabled to read in these stones 
of polished marble and hewn granite. When Moses 
set out to build "an altar under the hill and twelve 
pillars," he beforehand "wrote all the words of the 
Lord." 

Let us take comfort in the belief that in like man- 
ner this massive and beautiful building, which we 
have in our later time erected, will be for an ex- 
ample and inspiration to all of the people, encour- 



aging them in pure thoughts and inciting them to 
worthy deeds. Let us bear in mind the injunction 
of the far-seeing founder of the province, which 
made it indeed, as he hoped, the seed of a nation — 
"that we may do the thing that is truly wise and 
just. 

On behalf of the Commonwealth, as its Chief 
Executive, I accept this Capitol and now, with 
pride, with faith and with hope, I dedicate it to the 
public use and to the purposes for which it was 
designed and constructed. 

After the applause had subsided, all eyes 
were turned to the chair on which sat the 
Chief Magistrate of the Nation. A deep 
silence of expectancy rested on the vast multi- 
tude when the Governor rose to introduce 
President Roosevelt, but no sooner had his 
name been spoken, when cheer after cheer 
rent the air in all directions — far up and down 
the wide streets packed with humanity. The 
Governor in introducing him said: "Of all 
the rulers of the earth, the greatest is the 
President of the United States. I am glad 
we have him with us to-day. I present him 
to you." The address which he made was 
as follows : 

In every crisis of our Government the attitude 
of Pennsylvania has been of crucial importance, as 
the affectionate name of "Keystone State" signifies. 
Pennsylvania has always looked before she leaped, 
and it was well that she should do so. But having 
finally made up her mind, in each great crisis of our 
national history, her weight has been cast unhesitat- 



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ingly upon the right side, and has been found irre- 
sistible. This was true alilce at the time of the 
Declaration of Independence, at the time of the 
adoption of the Constitution and during the terrible 
years when the issue was the preservation of the 
Union. 

Pennsylvania's soil is historic. It was within 
Pennsylvania's borders that the contest which was 
to decide whether the valiant soldiers of France 
would be able to bar this continent against the dom- 
ination of the people of the English-speaking colo- 
nies. It was on Pennsylvania's soil that the Decla- 
ration of Independence was signed and the consti- 
tutional convention held. It was in Pennsylvania 
that Washington wintered at Valley Forge, and by 
keeping his army together during that winter defi- 
nitely turned the scales in our favor in the contest 
for independence. It was again on Pennsylvania's 
soil, at Gettysburg, that the tide turned in the Civil 
War. In the composition of her people, moreover, 
Pennsylvania has epitomized the composition of our 
Union ; for here many old world races have mingled 
their blood to make that new type, the American. 
Finally, in all branches of the public service, in 
peace and in war, the native or adopted citizens of 
Pennsylvania have attained the highest eminence. 

I do not, however, come here to-day to speak only 
of the past, and still less to appeal merely to State 
pride. We can show that the past is with us a 
living force only by the way in which we handle 
ourselves in the present, and each of us can best 
show his devotion to his own State by making evi- 
dent his paramount devotion to that union which 
includes all the States. The study of the great 
deeds of the past is of chief avail in so far as it in- 
cites us to grapple resolutely and effectively with the 
problems of the present. We are not now menaced 
by foreign war. Our union is firmly established. 
But each generation has its special and serious diffi- 
culties; and we of this generation have to struggle 
with evils springing from the very material success 
of which we are so proud, from the very growth 
and prosperity of which, with justice, we boast. 
The extraordinary Industrial changes of the last 
half a century have produced a totally new set of 
conditions, under which new evils flourish ; and 
for these new evils new remedies must be devised. 

Some of these evils can be grappled with by pri- 
vate effort only; for we never can afford to forget 
that In the last analysis the chief factor in personal 
success, and indeed In national greatness, must be 
the sturdy, self-reliant character of the individual 
citizen. But many of these evils are of such a na- 
ture that no private effort can avail against them. 



These evils, therefore, must be grappled with by 
governmental action. In some cases this govern- 
mental action must be exercised by the several States 
individually. In yet others it has become increas- 
ingly evident that no efficient State action is possible, 
V and that we need through executive action, through 
legislation, and through judicial interpretation and 
construction of law, to increase the power of the 
Federal Government. 

If we fail thus to increase it, we show our impo- 
tence and leave ourselves at the mercy of those in- 
genious legal advisers of the holders of vast corpor- 
ate wealth, who, in the performance of what they 
regard as their duty, and to serve the ends of their 
clients, invoke the law at one time for the con- 
founding of their rivals, and at another time strive 
for the nullification of the law, in order that they 
themselves may be left free to work their unbridled 
will on these same rivals, or on those who labor for 
them, or on the general public. In the exercise of 
their profession and in the service of their clients 
these astute lawyers strive to pervert the passage of 
efficient laws and strive to secure judicial determina- 
tions or those that pass which shall emasculate them. 
They do not invoke the Constitution in order to 
compel the due observance of law alike by the rich 
and poor, by great and small ; on the contrary, they 
are ceaselessly on the watch to cry out that the Con- 
stitution Is violated whenever any effort is made to 
invoke the aid of the National Government, whether 
for the efficient regulation of railroads, for the ef- 
ficient supervision of great corporations, or for ef- 
ficiently securing obedience to such a law as the na- 
tional eight-hour law and similar so-called "labor 
statutes." 

The doctrine they preach would make the Con- 
stitution merely the shield of incompetence and the 
excuse for governmental paralysis ; they treat It as 
a justification for refusing to attempt the remedy 
of evil, Instead of as the source of vital power neces- 
sary for the existence of a mighty and ever-growing 
nation. 

Strong nationalist though I am, and firm though 
my belief is that there must be a wide extension of 
the power of the National Government to deal with 
questions of this kind, I freely admit that as regards 
many matters of first-rate Importance we must rely 
purely upon the States for the betterment of pres- 
ent conditions. The several States must do their 
duty or our citizenship can never be put on a proper 
plane. Therefore I most heartily congratulate the 
people of this State of Pennsylvania on what its 
Legislature, upon what its government, has accom- 
plished during this present 5'ear. It is a remarkable 
record of achievement. 



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Through your Legislature you have abolished 
passes; you have placed the offices of the Secretary 
of the Commonwealth and the Insurance Commis- 
sioner upon an honorable and honest basis of salary 
only by abolishing the fee system ; you have passed 
a law compelling the officers and employes of great 
cities to attend to the duties for which they are paid 
by all the taxpayers, and to refrain from using the 
power conferred by their offices to influence political 
campaigns; you have prohibited the solicitation or 
receiving of political assessments by city employees; 
you have by law protected the State treasury from 
depredation and conserved the public moneys for 
use only in the public interest ; j'ou have by a law 
for the protection of the elective franchise made tam- 



tory of the practical betterment of political condi- 
tions, not merely for your State, but for all our 
States. I do not recall any other State Legislature 
which, in a similar length of time, has to its credit 
such a body of admirable legislation. Let me, how- 
ever, most earnestly urge that your Legislature con- 
tinue this record of public service by enacting one 
or two additional laws. One subject which every 
good citizen should have at heart above almost all 
others is the matter of child labor. Everywhere the 
great growth of modern industrialism has been ac- 
companied by abuses in connection with the em- 
ployment of labor which have necessitated a com- 
plete change in the attitude of the State toward 
labor. 




STATE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 



perlng with the ballot boxes and the casting of ille- 
gal votes so difficult as in all probability to be un- 
profitable; 5'ou have provided a primary election 
law which guarantees to the voters free expression 
in the selection of candidates for office ; you have by 
law regulated and Improved the civil service systems 
of your greatest cities; and, finally, you have passed 
a law containing a provision which I most earnestly 
hope will in substance be embodied likewise In a 
law by the Congress at the coming session — a pro- 
vision prohibiting the officers of any corporation 
from making a contribution of the money of that 
corporation to any candidate or any political com- 
mittee for the payment of any election expenses 
whatever. 

It is surely not too much to say that this body 
of substantive legislation marks an epoch in the his- 



This is above all true in connection with the 
employment of child labor. In Pennsylvania you 
have made a beginning, but only a beginning, in 
proper legislation and administration on this sub- 
ject; the law must If necessary be strengthened, 
and it must be rigorously enforced. The National 
Government can do but little in the matter of child 
labor, though I earnestly hope that that little will 
be permitted to be done by Congress. The great 
bulk of the work, however, must be left to the State 
Legislatures; and if our State Legislatures would 
act as drastically and yet as wisely on this subject of 
child labor as Pennsylvania has acted within the 
present year as regards the subjects I have enumer- 
ated above, the gain would be literally incalculable; 
and one of the most vital needs of modern American 
life would at last be adequately met. 



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So much for the State. Now for the nation; 
and here I cannot do better than base my theory of 
governmental action upon the words and deeds of 
one of Pennsylvania's greatest sons, Justice James 
Wilson. Wilson's career has been singularly over- 
looked for many years, but I believe that more and 
more it is now being adequately appreciated ; and 
I congratulate your State upon the fact that Wil- 
son's body is to be taken away from where it now 
rests and brought back to lie, as it should, in Penn- 
sylvania soil. He was a signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. He was one of the men who saw 
that the revolution, in which he had served as a sol- 
dier, would be utterly fruitless unless it was fol- 
lo^ved by a close and permanent union of the States ; 
and in the constitutional convention and in securing 
the adoption of the Constitution and expounding 
what it meant, he rendered services even greater 
than he rendered as a member of the Continental 
Congress, which declared our independence; for it 
was the success of the makers and preservers of the 
unon which justified our independence. 

He believed in the people with the faith of Abra- 
ham Lincoln; and coupled with his faith in the 
people, he had what most of the men who in his 
generation believed in the people did not have ; that 
is, the courage to recognize the fact that faith in 
the people amounted to nothing unless the repre- 
sentatives of the people assembled together in the 
National Government were given full and com- 
plete power to work on behalf of the people. He 
developed even before Marshall the doctrine (abso- 
lutely essential not merely to the efficiency but to 
the existence of this nation) that an inherent power 
rested in the nation, outside of the enumerated pow- 
ers conferred upon it by the Constitution, in all 
cases where the object involved was beyond the 
power of the several States and was a power ordi- 
narily exercised by sovereign nations. 

In a remarkable letter in which he advocated set- 
ting forth in early and clear fashion the powers of 
the national government, he laid down the propo- 
sition that it should be made clear that there were 
neither vacancies nor interferences between the 
limits of State and national jurisdiction and that 
both jurisdictions together composed only one uni- 
form and comprehensive system of government and 
laws; that is, whenever the States can not act, be- 
cause the need to be met is not one of merely a 
single locality, then the National Government rep- 
resenting all the people, should have complete 
power to act. It was in the spirit of Wilson that 
Washington and Washington's lieutenant, Hamil- 



ton, acted ; and it was in the same spirit that Mar- 
shall construed the law. 

It is only acting in this spirit that the national 
judges, legislators and executives can give a satisfac- 
tory solution of the great question of the present 
day — the question of providing on behalf of the 
sovereign people the means which will enable the 
people in eifective form to assert their sovereignty 
over the immense corporations of the day. Certain 
judicial decisions have done just what Wilson 
feared ; they have, as a matter of fact, left vacan- 
cies, left blanks between the limits of possible State 
jurisdiction and the limits of actual national juris- 
diction over the control of the great business cor- 
porations. It is the narrow construction of the 
powers of the National Government which in our 
democracy has proved the chief means of limiting 
the national power to cut out abuses, and which is 
now the chief bulwark of those great moneyed in- 
terests which oppose and dread any attempt to place 
them under efficient governmental control. 

Many legislative actions and many judicial de- 
cisions which I am confident time will show to have 
been erroneous and a damage to the country would 
have been avoided if our legislators and jurists had 
approached the matter of enacting and construing 
the law's of the land in the spirit of your great Penn- 
sylvanian. Justice Wilson — in the spirit of Marshall 
and of Washington. Such decisions put us at a 
great disadvantage in the battle for industrial order 
as against the present industrial chaos. If we inter- 
pret the Constitution in narrow instead of broad 
fashion, if we forsake the principles of Washington, 
Marshall, Wilson and Hamilton, we as a people 
will render ourselves impotent to deal with any 
abuses which may be committed by the men who 
have accumulated the enormous fortunes of to-day, 
and who use these fortunes in still vaster corporate 
form in business. 

The legislative or judicial actions and decisions 
of which I complain, be it remembered, do not really 
leave to the States power to deal with corporate 
wealth in business. Actual experience has shown 
that the States are wholly powerless to deal with 
this subject; and any action or decision that de- 
prives the nation of the power to deal with it, simply 
results in leaving the corporations absolutely free 
to work without any efltective supervision whatever, 
and such a course is fraught with untold danger to 
the future of our whole system of government, and, 
indeed, to our whole civilization. 

All honest men must abhor and reprobate any 
effort to excite hostility to men of wealth as such. 
We should do all we can to encourage thrift and 



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business energy, to put a premium upon the con- 
duct of the man who honestly earns his livelihood 
and more than his livelihood, and who honestly uses 
the money he has earned. But it is our clear duty 
to see, in the interest of the people, that there is 
adequate supervision and control over the business 
use of the swollen fortunes of to-day, and also 
wisely to determine the conditions upon which these 
fortunes are to be transmitted and the percentage 



wealth, and should realize that it would be better 
to have no legislation at all than legislation couched 
either in a vindictive spirit of hatred toward men of 
wealth or else drawn with the recklessness of im- 
practicable visionaries. But, on the other hand, it 
shall and must ultimately be understood that the 
United States Government, on behalf of the people 
of the United States, has and is to exercise the 
power of supervision and control over the business 




Owen Roberts 
Chas. G. Wetter Jos. M. Huston Geo. F. I'ayne Stanford B. Lewis 

BREAKING GROUND FOR THE NEW STATE CAPITOL. 



that they shall pay to the government v\'hose pro- 
tecting arm alone enables them to exist. Only the 
nation can do this work. To relegate it to the 
States is a farce, and is simply another way of say- 
ing that it shall not be done at all. 

Under a wise and far-seeing interpretation ot the 
interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, I 
maintain that the National Government should 
have complete power to deal with all of this wealth 
which in any way goes into the commerce between 
the States — and practically all of it that is employed 
in the great corporations does thus go in. The na- 
tional legislators should most scrupulously avoid any 
demagogic legislation about the business use of this 



use of this wealth — in the first place, over all the 
work of the common carriers of the nation, and in 
the next place over the work of all the great corpor- 
ations which directly or indirectly do any interstate 
business whatever — and this includes almost all of 
the great corporations. 

During the last few years the National Govern- 
ment has taken very long strides in the direction of 
exercising and securing this adequate control over 
the great corporations and it was under the leader- 
ship of one of the most honored public men in our 
country, one of Pennsylvania's most eminent sons — 
the present Senator, and then Attorney General, 
Knox — that the new departure was begun. Events 



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have moved fast during the last five years, and it is 
curious to look back at the extreme bitterness which 
not merely the spokesmen and representatives of or- 
ganized wealth, but many most excellent conserva- 
tive people then felt as to the action of Mr. Knox 
and of the Administration. 

Many of the great financiers of this country were 
certain that Mr. Knox's Northern Securities suit, if 
won, would plunge us into the worst panic we had 
ever seen. They denounced as incitement to an- 
archy, as an apology for socialism, the advocacy of 
policies that either have now become law or are in 
fair way of becoming law ; and yet these same poli- 
cies, so far from representing anarchy or socialism, 
were in reality the antidotes to anarchy, the anti- 
dotes to socialism. To exercise a constantly in- 
creasing and constantly more efficient supervision 
and control over the great common carriers of the 
country prevents all necessity for seriously consid- 
ering such a project as the government ownership 
of railroads — a policy which would be evil in its 
results from every standpoint. 

A similar extension of the national power to over- 
see and secure correct behavior in the management 
of all great corporations engaged in interstate busi- 
ness will in similar fashion render far more stable 
the present system by doing away with those grave 
abuses which are not only evil in themselves but are 
also evil because they furnish an excuse for agita- 
tors to inflame well-meaning people against all forms 
of property, and to commit the country to schemes 
of wild, would-be remedy which would work in- 
finitely more harm than the disease itself. The 
Government ought not to conduct the business of 
the country, but it ought to regulate it so that it 
shall be conducted in the interest of the public. 

Perhaps the best justification of the course which 
in the National Government we have been pursuing 
in the past few years, and which we intend steadily 
and progressively to pursue in the future, is that it 
is condemned with almost equal rancor alike by the 
reactionaries — the Bourbons — on one side, and by 
the wild apostles of unrest on the other. The reac- 
tionary is bitterly angry because we have deprived 
him of that portion of his power which he misuses 
to the public hurt; the agitator is angered for va- 
rious reasons, including among others the fact that 
by remedying the abuses we have deprived him of 
the fulcrum of real grievance, which alone renders 
the lever of irrational agitation formidable. 

We have actually accomplished much. But we 
have not accomplished all, not anything like all, that 
we feel must be accomplished. We shall not halt; 
we shall steadily follow the path we have marked 



out, executing the laws we have succeeded in putting 
upon the statute books with absolute impartiality as 
between man and man, and unresting in our en- 
deavor to strengthen and supplement these by further 
laws which shall enable us in more efficient and 
more summary fashion to achieve the ends we have 
in view. 

During the last few years Congress has had to 
deal with such vitally important questions as provid- 
ing for the building of the Panama Canal, inaugu- 
rating the vast system of national irrigation in the 
States of the great plains and the Rocky Mountains, 
providing for a Pacific cable, and so forth. Yet in 
addition to these tasks, some of which are of stu- 
pendous importance. Congress has taken giant 
strides along the path of government regulation and 
control of corporations; the interstate commerce 
law has been made effective in radical and far-reach- 
ing fashion, rebates have been stopped, a pure food 
law has been passed, proper supervision of the meat 
packing business provided, and the bureau of cor- 
porations established — a bureau which has already 
done great good, and which can and should be given 
a constantly increasing functional power. 

The work of legislation has been no more import- 
ant than the work done by the department of jus- 
tice in executing the laws, not only against corpora- 
tions and individuals who have broken the anti- 
trust or interstate commerce law, but against those 
who have been engaged in land trauds. Scores of 
suits, civil and criminal, have been successfully un- 
dertaken against offenders of all kinds — many of 
them against the most formidable and wealthy com- 
binations in the land ; in some the combinations 
have been dissolved, in some heavy fines have been 
imposed, in several cases the chief offenders have 
been imprisoned. 

It behooves us Americans to look ahead and plan 
out the right kind of a civilization, as that which 
we intend to develop from these wonderful new 
conditions of vast industrial growth. It must not 
be, it shall not be, the civilization of a mere plu- 
tocracy, a banking house, Wall-street-syndicate civ- 
ilization ; not yet can there be submission to class 
hatred, to rancor, brutality and mob violence, for 
that would mean the end of all civilization. In- 
creased powers are susceptible of abuse as well as 
use; never before have the opportunities for selfish- 
ness been so great, nor the results of selfishness so 
appalling; for in communities where everything is 
organized on a merely selfish commercial basis, such 
selfishness, if unchecked, may transform the great 
forces of the new epoch into powers of destruction 
hitherto unequaled. 



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FAC-SIMILE OF INVITATION TO DEDICATION CEREMONIES. 



We need to check the forces of greed, to insure 
just treatment alike of capital and of labor, and of 
the general public, to prevent any man, rich or poor, 
from doing or receiving wrong, whether this wrong 
be one of cunning or of violence. Much can be 
done by wise legislation and by resolute enforce- 
ment of the law. But still more must be done by 
steady training of the individual citizen, in con- 
science and character, until he grows to abhor cor- 
ruption and greed and tyranny and brutality and to 
prize justice and fair dealing. 

The men who are to do the work of the new epoch 
must be trained so as to have a sturdy self-respect, 
a power of sturdy insistence on their own rights, and 
with it a proud and generous recognition of their 
duties, a sense of honorable obligation to their fel- 
lows, which will bind them, as by bands of steel, to 
refrain in their daily work at home or in their busi- 
ness from doing aught to any man which cannot be 
blazoned under the noonday sun. 

No sooner had the last word fallen from 
the President's lips when a mighty cheer went 
up from thousands and thousands of Penn- 
sylvania's citizenship, and a salute from the 
arsenal guns put a heavy period to it all. 
Then followed the benediction by the Bishop 
of Harrisburg, the Right Reverend James 

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Henry Darlington, who brought the cere- 
monies to a solemn and impressive close : 

May Jehovah Jireh, the Heavenly Father, and 
Creator of all men, grant His blessing upon this 
structure now dedicated to the use of the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania. May all who enact or 
execute the law remember the words of Holy Scrip- 
ture, "The powers that be are ordained of God," 
and that the representatives of the people must be 
men of godly life and purpose. As the founders 
of this Colony called it, "A Holy Experiment," may 
it continue "Holy" forever. Bless our colleges, our 
public and private schools, our churches, societies 
and charities, bless soldier and citizen, black and 
white, stranger and native born. May the tolera- 
tion of varying beliefs, which was the first principle 
of our past, be also the motto of the future, and as 
this State was perhaps more favored than any other 
in furthering the Revolutionarj^ cause, so may she 
ever be ready in the years to come to offer herself 
and her sons a sacrifice for the good of the Nation, 
of which she is a part. God bless the workers in 
our mines, the lumbermen of our forests and moun- 
tain sides, the farmers of our broad valleys, the 
merchants, factory workers and laborers of our 
cities, and make all strong for public honesty and 
honor. Called rightly the "Kej'stone State," may 
she ever value that truth and uprightness which is 
the keystone of religion and all virtue. 

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The Lord bless us and keep us. The Lord make 
his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us. 
The Lord lift up his countenance upon us and give 
us peace both now and evermore. Amen. 

At 12.30 P. M. the military parade was 
formed. The hne of march extended from 
the city entrance, Front and Market streets, 
on Market to Fourth, to Wabiut, to Third, 
to North, to Sixth, to Reily, to Third, to 
Forster, to Second, to North to Front, to 
Market, where the parade was reviewed by 
grand marshal, major general and staffs, and 
dismissed. 

The formation of the procession was as 
follows : 

Detail of State Police. 

Commonwealth Band. 

Colors. 

(Mounted) 

Sergt. Fred. W. Huston, Sergt. H. H. Baker, 

Sergt. C. Y. Parthemore, Sergt. R. C. Crow, 

Sergt. J. K. Spangler, Sergt. Abram Musser. 

Chief Marshal, 
Marlin E. Olmsted. 

Chief of Staff, 
Col. W. F. Richardson. 

Orderlies, 

Francis H. Hoy, Jr., Dr. Henry M. Stine, Capt. 

L. V. Rausch. 

Aides: 

William H. Atkins, Oliver Attick, Lewis E. 
Beitler, Arthur D. Bacon, Harry H. Bowman, 
Charles S. Boll, Wilbur S. Barker, William A. 
Boll, Fred. M. Barton, John C. Behney, A. H. 
Bailey, J. Beattie Barbour, John A. Bollman, Dr. 
J. B. Biddle, Judge D. Brown, George W. Brady, 
Dr. John F. Culp, Owen M. Copelin, Robert Conk- 
lin, George W. Cook, Dr. H. Ross Coover. 

Daniel M. Dull, Clark E. Diehl, John A. Deitz- 
ler, Winfield S. Evans, U. G. Eppley, George A. 
Engle, Eugene M. Ensminger, E. F. Eisley, Major 
John T. Ensminger, W. R. Emerick, Dr. J. W. 
Ellenberger, A. J. Feight, N. Matt Freck, Charles 
G. Frantz, Richard V. Fox, John Fisher, Peter F. 
Fitzpatrick, Dr. D. F. Funk, John C. Groome, 
George C. Gochenaur, John W. German, Levi 
Gerhard, Christ C. Gingrich, Jacob T. Gibson. 

J. H. Kimmel, George C. Keim, L. R. Kelker, 
Samuel T. Kurtz, Henry L. Lark, Merkel Landis, 



John S. Low, Luther Ludvvig, Albert G. Light, 
Harry G. Loeser, Dr. J. J. Light, Martin Longe- 
necker, Arthur M. Lebo, William L Laubenstein, 
Major R. W. Montelius, Edward Manning, George 
W. Musser, John B. Musser, Major H. P. Mover, 
Charles F. Moyer, A. S. Miller. 

Dr. William Hughes, Harry L. Holmes, W. 
Spry Hurlock, Lawrence V. Harvey, Harry Hertz- 
ler, George C. Helfrich, E. O. Hassler, William 
Hunsicker, A. L Hartman, John A. Heagv, Francis 
H. Hoy, Francis H. Hoy, jr., Frank Hall, M. H. 
Hite, M. P. Johnson, Joseph Jordan, W, K. Jones, 
Clinton Jones, F. L. Jefferson, A. H. Kreidler, 
J. H. Kuntz, J. Herman Knisely. 

Walter Montgomery, F. T. McClintock, John 
Charles Mosser, Perry Murray, Walter Mahon, 
Dennis F. McCarthy, John A. Moyer. 

Francis Neeh', T. J. Newcomer, John L. Nissley, 
B. Frank Ober, J. S. Omwake, Major James Eve- 
lyn Pilcher, Captain J. M. Peters, Milton H. 
Plank, Riley Probst, Samuel F. Prowell, Dr. W. H. 
Painter, Captain L. V. Rausch, George H. Reifif, 
Isaiah Reese, A. S. Royer, John W. Reilly, J. Park 
Rutherford. 

John C. Reeser, Dr. Henry M. Stine, Lieut. 
Fred. Schofer, George F. Shope, Charles Sterline, 
H. J. Shenk, Levi H. Shenk, Major J. C. Smith, 
H. H. Shellenberger, William P. Sieg, Joseph L. 
Shearer, Jr., David H. Shope, Russell Thomas, Sr., 
R. H. Thomas, Jr., A. A. Thumma, Dr. H. M. 
Vastine, John C. Wensell, Dr. R. J. Wall. 

Major General J. P. S. Gobin. 

StafiF. 

Lt. Col. William J. Elliott, Assistant Adjutant 

General. 

Lt. Col. John P. Penny, Inspector. 

Lt. Col. Norman B. Farquhar, Judge Advocate. 

Lt. Col. William F. Richardson, Quartermaster. 

Lt. Col. Simon B. Cameron, Commissary. 

Lt. Col. Andrew S. Strayer, Surgeon-in-Chief. 

Lt. Col. Milton A. Gherst, Ordnance Officer. 

Lt. Col. Frank G. Darte, I. R. P. 

Major Fred. R. Drake, A. D. C. 
Major Frederic A. Snyder, A. D. C. 
Major William S. Millar, A. D. C. 

Brigadier General John A. Wiley. 
Staff. 

Col. Willis J. Hulings, 

Commanding Provisional Regiment, Second 

Brigade. 



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Fourteenth Regiment Band. 
Provisional Regiment, Second Brigade. 

Col. Wendell P. Bowman, 
Commanding Provisional Regiment, First Brigade. 

Staff. 

Third Regiment Band. 

Provisional Regiment, First Brigade. 



The President and the Governor reviewed 
the parade from the grandstand at Third and 
State streets, where the dedication ceremo- 
nies had taicen place. President Roosevelt 
was no doubt tired, but he took his place at 
the front of the stand again with his usual 
quick, brisk steps, and to the salute of Con- 
gressman Olmsted, who rode past as chief 




DEDICATION DAY, OCT. 4, I906 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSING THE PEOPLE. 



Col. Charles M. Clement, 
Commanding Provisional Regiment, Third Brigade. 

Staff. 
Twelfth Regiment Band. 

Provisional Regiment, Third Brigade. 
Captain H. H. Hey, U. S. A., Commanding. 

State College Cadets. 
Col. W. C. Bambrick, Commanding. 

Scotland Orphan School Cadets. 

Indian Band. 
Carlisle Indian School. 

Captain John C. Groome, Commanding. 
State Police. 

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marshal, he responded by lifting his silk hat 
with a graceful sweep. He taught the crowd 
a lesson in patriotism as the first of the colors 
approached. When the flag got within ten 
yards of the stand, he doffed his hat, keeping 
it off until the standard bearer had gone by. 
Every man in the multitude followed suit, 
and repeated the act of respect with each ap- 
proach of the colors. Every company line 
that went by in straight alignment received 
a smile of appro\'al from President Roose- 
velt. All the militiamen and cadets passed 
him with "eyes right" and stepped their best 
as they passed their commander-in-chief. 
The Carlisle Indian School boys received 

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the greatest ovation from the people. They 
stepped out like regulars, with a long swing- 
ing stride and their guns at a "port arms" — 
the marching salute. They looked like a 
regiment of victorious Japs, with their dark 
skins and visored caps. By a humorous 
chance their band changed its music from 
"Garry Owen" to "The Gang's All Here" as 
it reached the stand. 

But it remained for the State Constab- 
ulary — two troops of the most brawny Penn- 
sylvanians within the borders of the State, 
mounted on choice horses and headed by Cap- 
tain John C. Groome — to make the biggest 
hit with the President. Clad in dark service 
uniforms and helmeted after the Irish fashion, 
their tread and bearing certainly showed them 
in fine fettle. 

The little boys from the Scotland Soldiers' 
Orphans' School were also heartily greeted. 
"What a wonderful State is Pennsylvania to 
care for the children of its old soldiers," re- 
marked the President as he watched the lit- 
tlest fellows toddling along carrying guns as 
big as themselves. 

After the last of the ragged urchins fol- 
lowing in the wake of the parade, had cleared 
the street in front of the stand, the Governor 
and his guests drove rapidly to the Executive 
Mansion. The luncheon tendered was one 
of the most notable functions given in the 
Mansion for years. The tables were ar- 
ranged in the form of a large horseshoe and 
decorated with roses and carnations and the 
State silver service. At the head of the table 
sat the Governor, with the President on his 
right and Senator Penrose on his left. There 
were no toasts for lack of time, and after a 
brief farewell to the President, he left for the 
station, whither he was escorted by the Dedi- 
cation Committee and the Governor's Troop, 
Captain Frederick Ott commanding, in time 
to take a train at three o'clock. 



Great festivities had been planned for the 
afternoon and evening, but owing to the 
heavy rain, all those arranged for out of 
doors had to be abandoned. The Capitol 
was accordingly filled with humanity eager to 
see its glories. The Damrosch orchestra dis- 
coursed a program of the finest music, in the 
rotunda during the afternoon, and in the 
evening Kendle's First Regiment Band made 
the dome reverberate with its sonorous 
strains. The Japanese day shells which were 
to be set off at Union Square in the afternoon, 
and the pyrotechnic display to be made on 
the "Island" In the evening, had to be post- 
poned to the following day. 

So ended the dedication of Pennsylvania's 
Capitol in 1906. No more notable event had 
occurred within the confines of the State for 
many a year. Those who did not enjoy the 
enviable opportunity of being present, will, 
when they come to see It In future years, un- 
der the spell of the magnificence of the struc- 
ture, conjure up in their imagination the 
thousands upon thousands gathered in the 
Capitol, the elaborate and Impressive cere- 
monies, and the patriotic influence which the 
dedication exerted upon those that were privi- 
leged to participate In it. It is to be hoped 
that as the years, yea, as the centuries roll by, 
generations unborn may live under good 
laws and good rulers because the Capitol was 
dedicated to work out "the holy experiment" 
of him that was the founder of our Common- 
wealth. Already, since the dedication, many 
thousands of people have availed them- 
selves of what are known as the Saturday 
"penny-a-mlle" railroad excursions from all 
parts of the State, to feast their eyes on the 
glories of the Capitol and to stimulate their 
patriotic pride In the greatness of the Key- 
stone State. 



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SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER 



Governor of Pennsylvania. — Born in Phoe- 
nixville, Chester county, Pa., April g, 1843. His 
father having been appointed to a professorship in 
the Philadelphia Medical College, the family moved 
to that city and young Pennypacker was sent to the 
Northwest Grammar school, from which he was 
given a scholarship in Saunders Institute, West 
Philadelphia. On the death of his father, after sev- 
eral years' residence in Philadelphia, he moved back 
to Phoenixville, where he attended the Grovemont 
seminary. He prepared for Yale University, but 
through circumstances beyond his control he was 
prevented from attending that institute of learning. 
In 1862 he took an examination for teachers' certifi- 
cate in Montgomery county and that winter taught 
school in Mont Clare. In 1863 he enlisted and was 
sworn in as a United States Volunteer, joining 
Company F, of Pottstown, Twenty-sixth Pennsyl- 
vania Emergency Regiment, which was the first 
force to meet the rebels at Gettysburg. On his re- 
turn from military service, he began the study of 
law, entering the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania and at the same time regis- 
tering as a law student in the office of Hon. Peter 
McCall. In 1866 he was graduated with the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Laws and after the admission 
to the bar immediately began in the practice of the 
legal profession. In the same year he was elected 
president of the Bancroft Literary Union and in 
1868 was chosen president of the Law Academy. 
In 1886 he was appointed a member of the Phila- 



delphia Board of Education. He was admitted to 
the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States 
in 1887 and in 1889 was appointed Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas No. 2 of Philadelphia by 
Governor Beaver. In the same year he was elected 
to the same position for a term of ten years and in 
1899 was re-elected for a similar term, each time 
by both political parties. At the time of his nomi- 
nation by the Republican State Convention for Gov- 
ernor of the State he was President Judge of the 
Court of Common Plea; No. 2 of Philadelphia. 
He is president of the Historical Society of Phila- 
delphia and of the Philobiblon club ; vice-president 
of the Sons of the Revolution and of the Colonial 
Society ; Past Commander of Frederick Taylor 
post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic; member 
of the Society of Colonial Wars ; of the Society of 
the War of 1812. He is also a trustee of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania and both Franklin and Mar- 
shall College and the University of Pennsylvania 
have given him the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
For a number of years he was a member of the Val- 
ley Forge Commission. He is the author of "Penn- 
sylvania Colonial Cases," "Pennypacker's Supreme 
Court Reports," the "Settlement of Germantown," 
"A Digest of the Common Law Reports," "His- 
torical and Biographical Sketches," and over sixty 
books and papers. He was married October 20, 
1870, to Virginia Earl, daughter of Nathan B. 
Broomal, of Chester county, and their family con- 
sists of three daughters and a son. 



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WILLIAM M. BROWN 



WILLIAM M. BROWN, 

Lieutenant Governor. — Born in Greenville, 
Pa., September 20, 1850, and is a resident of New 
Castle, Lawrence county. Received his early edu- 
cation in the public schools of Iowa. Subsequently 
he attended the Grammar School of Warren, Ohio, 
the Power Commercial School, of New Castle, Pa., 
and the One Study College of that city. Mr. 
Brown studied law in New Castle with Judge Mc- 
Michael, was admitted to the bar in 1876, and prac- 
ticed the profession eight years. He served as 
special agent of the Land Office Department of the 
United States from January, 1883, until the fol- 
lowing August, when he resigned and resumed the 
practice of law. Mr. Brown politically is a Repub- 
lican : he was a candidate for member of the House 
of Representatives from Lawrence county in 1876 
and again in 1880, but was both times defeated by 
very small majorities. In November, 1896, he was 
elected a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from 
the Forty-seventh district, composed of Lawrence 
and Mercer counties, and at the sessions of the Leg- 
islature in 1897 he held a conspicuous position as a 
leader in that body, making a very creditable record 
as a debater and generally achieving an honorable 
distinction. He served as member of the select 
council of New Castle for six years. 

In 1890 business interests compelled him to un- 

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dertake the building and operating of an electric 
street car line, and for the past fourteen years he has 
devoted his attention exclusively to this line of 
work. Until recently he was president of the Rapid 
Transit Railroad System of Syracuse, N. Y. 

In 1884 he was married to Miss Margaret Foltz. 
They have two children, a daughter and a son. 

He was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by 
the Republican State Convention of 1902, and 
elected in November of that year by a plurality of 
181,254; inaugurated January 20, 1903. 



ROBERT McAFEE, 



Secretary of the Commonwealth. — Born Feb- 
ruary 28, 1849, in County Antrim, Ireland; was 
educated in Belfast; came to Allegheny in 1869, 
entering the employ of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, with 
which firm he remained twenty-four years. Was 
elected to select council in Allegheny in 1881, and 
served for ten years. In 1893 was elected Director 
of Public Works, which position he held for nine 
years. Has been a director of the Allegheny Na- 
tional Bank, Pittsburg, for ten years. Appointed 
Commissioner of Banking by Governor Samuel W. 
Pennypacker, April 13, 1903, which position he 
resigned upon his appointment as Secretary of the 
Commonwealth on July 27, 1905. 




ROBERT M AFEE 



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WILLIAM PRESTON SNYDER 



WILLIAM PRESTON SNYDER, 

Auditor General. — Born October 7, 1851, in 
East Vincent township, Chester county, Pa. ; raised 
on a farm; educated in the public schools, Millers- 
ville Normal School and Ursinus College; taught 
school in his native township in the winter of 
1868-69; graduated in the medical department of 
the University' of Pennsylvania in March, 1873; 
practiced medicine in Spring City (where he now 
resides) from 1873 to 1886; from February, 1886, 
to December 31, 1887, was medical examiner for 
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; postmaster 
in Spring City from 1883 to 1885; November, 
1885, was elected prothonotary of Chester county, 
serving until January 4, 1891 ; in January, 1890, 
was elected chairman of the Republican County 
Committee ; resigned on the day he was nominated 
for Representative; was delegate to the State Con- 
vention which nominated Governor Hoyt, in 1878, 
and General Beaver in 1882; member of House of 
Representatives, session 1891 ; elected to the Senate 
1892, 1896; again re-elected in I goo; served as 
President pro tempore of the Senate during the ses- 
sions of 1899 and 1901 ; was nominated for Audi- 
tor General by the Republican State Convention in 
1903 and elected in November of that year by a 
majority of 237,602. 



HAMPTON L. CARSON, 

Attorney General. — Born in Philadelphia, Feb- 
ruary 21, 1852. Was admitted to the bar of Phila- 
delphia in 1874, after having taken the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania 
and a three years' course in the law school. He 
has argued cases in every branch of the United 
States courts and in the Supreme courts of Penn- 
sylvania, New York, New Jersey, and a number of 
other States. Was prominently connected with the 
trial of various bank cases in the Federal courts, 
one of which was the first of its kind to reach the 
Supreme Court of the United States and has be- 
come a leading case. Was the leading counsel in a 
case recently tried before the Supreme Court of the 
United States which involved the rights of Indian 
tribes in Oklahoma, known as the Lone Wolf case. 
Was the special representative of the American Bar 
Association at the gathering of the English and 
French bars at Montreal and was invited to speak 
before the Bench and Bar of England in London, 
at the banquet to Labori, who defended Dreyfus 
and Zola. Is the author of the "Law of Criminal 
Conspiracies," a work which is the accepted author- 
ity in almost every State in the Union. Has pub- 
lished "A History of the Celebration of the One 
Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the 
Constitution of the United States," and is now 
engaged in writing the history of the Supreme Court 




HAMPTON L. CARSON 



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of Pennsylvania and a Life of Lord Mansfield. Has 
also delivered many historical and legal addresses 
before the State Bar Associations of Pennsylvania, 
New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, and Ore- 
gon. For many years he was professor in the law 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, 
teaching the laws of contracts and sales. Is a mem- 
ber of the Philadelphia Law Association, the Penn- 
sylvania State Bar Association, the American Bar 
Association, the American Philosophical Society, 
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the 
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution. 
In 1889 Mr. Carson received from Lafayette Col- 
lege the degree of LL. D. In 1904 the degree of 
LL. D. from the Western University of Pennsylva- 
nia, and in 1906 the same degree from his alma 
mater, the University of Pennsylvania. He was 
appointed Attorney General by Governor Penny- 
packer, January 20, 1903. 




WILLIAM H. BERRY, 

State Treasurer. — Born in Edwardsville, Mad- 
ison county, Illinois, September 9, 1852. Is the 
son of Benjamin D. and Mary F. Berry; his 
father was one of the early pioneers of Illinois, and 
a skilled mechanic, having perfected several inven- 
tions; inheriting his father's mechanical tastes Mr. 
Berry served an apprenticeship in the machine shops 




NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER 

of Geo. W. Tift Sons of Buffalo, N. Y., and has 
been actively engaged in kindred pursuits ever since. 
Educated in the public schools of Illinois and se- 
cured a technical engineering education at the va- 
rious night schools, and at home. Has made several 
inventions of value, notably a high pressure, super- 
heating boiler which bears his name ; is the presi- 
dent of the Berry Engineering Co. which manufac- 
tures several of his inventions; has been a life-long 
student of economic questions, and has written and 
spoken frequently in several States upon these ques- 
tions; elected Mayor of Chester in February, 1905, 
and State Treasurer in November, 1905. 



WILLIAM H. BERRY 



NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, 

Superintendent of Public Instruction. — 
Born February 23, 1849, in Maxatawney township, 
Berks county; educated in Maxatawny Seminary 
(now Keystone State Normal School), Franklin 
and Marshall College, Lancaster ; Theological 
Seminary, Mercersburg, and in the Universities of 
Berlin, Tubingen and Leipsic; taught in Mercers- 
burg College and in Franklin and Marshall Col- 
lege ; was sixteen years principal of the Keystone 
State Normal School ; elected president of the Na- 
tional Educational Association of Asbury Park, 
N. J., in 1905; served as president of the Pennsyl- 
vania State Teacher's Association, secretary of the 



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National Council of Education, president of the De- 
partment of Superintendence of the National As- 
sociation, president of the Pennsylvania German 
Society, chancellor of the Pennsylvania Chautaqua 
at Mt. Gretna from 1901 to 1905; as a member 
of the Pennsylvania Commission on Industrial Edu- 
cation ; as editor of the Pennsylvania School Jour- 
nal since 1893, and is editor of a volume of Bible 
Readings for Schools; author of "Thinking and 
Learning to Think," and a History of Education 
in Pennsylvania, published by Mason Publishing 
Company; commissioned Superintendent of Public 
Instruction June i, 1903, and recommissioned in 
1897, 1901 and 1905; served as a lecturer on Ped- 
agogy in the graduate department of the Univers- 
ity of Pennsylvania during the absence of Dr. 
Brumbaugh as Commissioner of Education in Porto 
Rico (1900-igoi). 



THOMAS J. STEWART, 

Adjutant General. — Born September 11, 1848, 
near Belfast, Ireland, and was brought by his pa- 
rents to Norristown, Montgomery county, in 1849; 
was educated in the public schools, and at the 
Quaker City Business College in Philadelphia; at 
sixteen years of age he enlisted as a private in the 
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers; engaged as manufacturer and 
dealer in window glass from 1870 to 1882; Assist- 
ant Adjutant General of Department of Pennsylva- 
nia, Grand Army of the Republic from 1882 to 
1888; elected Department Commander in 1889; in 
1883 "'as appointed Assistant Adjutant General of 
the Grand Army of the Republic in the United 
States; in September, 1897, appointed Adjutant 
General of the Grand Army of the Republic by 
Commander-in-Chief J. P. S. Gobin ; reappointed 
September, 1898, by Commander-in-Chief James A. 
Sexton; reappointed September, 1899, by Com- 
mander-in-Chief Albert D. Shaw ; elected Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public October 8, 1 902; a member of the House of 
Representatives, session of 1885-1886; has been con- 
nected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania 
since 1868; appointed adjutant of the Sixth regi- 
ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1877; 
on September 20, 1889, was appointed assistant 
adjutant general. First Brigade, and reappointed in 
1894; appointed on the part of the House of Repre- 
sentatives a member of the commission to locate and 
establish the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' 




THOMAS J. STEWART 

Home, and afterwards as a member of the board of 
trustees of the same institution on the part of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, and acted as secre- 
tary of both the commission and board of trustees ; 
has been secretary of the board of trustees continu- 
ously since 1886; in 1890 appointed a member of 
the commission in charge of the Soldiers' Orphan 
Schools; elected Secretary of Internal Affairs No- 
vember 4, 1886, and re-elected November 4, 1890; 
appointed Adjutant General by Governor D. H. 
Hastings, January 15, 1895; reappointed by Gov- 
ernor Wm. A. Stone, January 17, 1899; and re- 
appointed by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, 
January 21, 1903. 



JAMES KNOX POLK HALL, 

State Senator. — Born at Milesburg, Pa., Sep- 
tember 30, 1844; educated at Pittsburg; admitted 
to the bar in November, 1866; elected district at- 
torney of Elk county in 1867; re-elected in 1870 
and 1873; retired from practice in 1883, and has 
since devoted himself to his coal, lumber, railroad 
and banking interests ; was elected to the Fifty-sixth 
Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-seventh Con- 
gress; elected to the Senate in November, 1902; 
re-elected 1906. 



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National Convention in 1904 that nominated Theo- 
dore Roosevelt for President. On July i, 1905, 
was appointed Insurance Commissioner by Governor 
Pennypacker. 



DAVID MARTIN 

DAVID MARTIN, 

Insurance Commissioner. — Born August 20, 
1845, in Philadelphia county, on what is known as 
the Ridgeway farm ; attended the public schools ; 
lived on the farm until he was twenty years of age, 
when he moved to Philadelphia; first elected a 
member of the Republican executive committee in 
June, 1866, before he was twenty-one years of age 
and served for thirty-seven years; appointed Ser- 
geant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives of 
Pennsylvania, session 1873; elected county commis- 
sioner of Philadelphia in 1875, and re-elected 1878; 
has been a delegate to almost every Republican State 
Convention since 1872; appointed Sergeant-at- 
Arms of the National House of Representatives, 
session 1 881 and 1882; was a delegate to the Re- 
publican National Convention that nominated Har- 
rison in 1888; a delegate to the convention at Min- 
neapolis in 1892, and voted for Major McKinley 
against President Harrison; a delegate to the Na- 
tional Convention in 1896, St. Louis, and was one 
of the six Pennsylvania delegates who voted for 
Major McKinley; appointed Collector of Internal 
Revenue for the First district of Pennsylvania by 
President Harrison in May, 1889, resigning after 
serving two years ; appointed Secretary' of the Com- 
monwealth September 11, 1897; elected State Sen- 
ator in November, 1898, and served the sessions of 
1899 and 1 901; was a delegate to the Republican 

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JAMES E. RODERICK, 

Chief of the Department of Mines. — Born 
in South Wales, January, 1 842, he attended the 
British Schools until he was thirteen years of age, 
when, owing to the death of his father, he was 
obliged to go to work in the mines. From the age 
of eighteen years he attended night school until he 
came to this country in the early sixties, locating 
at Pittston, Luzerne county, where he was employed 
as a miner's laborer. Afterward he worked as a 
miner doing all kind of work in the mines, at Pitts- 
ton and Wilkes-Barre, until January i, 1886, when 
he was appointed mine foreman of the Empire shaft, 
Wilkes-Barre, then one of the largest gaseous 
mines in the anthracite region. He resigned this 
position June i, 1870, to accept the position of gen- 
eral superintendent of the Warrior Run Coal Com- 
pany. After a successful competitive examination 
before a board of practical and theoretical men, he 
was commissioned State Mine Inspector, July 7, 
1 88 1, by Governor Hoyt, with headquarters at 
Hazleton, and recommissioned by Governor Patti- 
son July 7, 1886. May 31, 1889, he resigned to 
accept the position of general superintendent for 




JAMES E. RODERICK 



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Linderman and Skeer's collieries at Stockton, a mine 
town near Hazleton. At the closing down of their 
collieries, he accepted the position of general super- 
intendent and manager of A. S. Van Wickle's ex- 
tensive coal interests. June I, 1899, he resigned to 
accept the office of Chief of the Bureau of Mines, 
under Governor Stone. He was reappointed as 
Chief of the Department of Mines by Governor 
Pennypacker, April 15, 1903. This office he still 
holds. Mr. Roderick has held the elective offices 
of school director in Warrior Run, and select 
councilman in Hazleton. He was chairman of the 
board of commissioners that built the Hazleton State 
Hospital and has been for years and is now presi- 
dent of the board of trustees of that institution. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a 
director of the Hazleton National Bank. 



SAMUEL G. DIXON, M. D., 

CoMAiissioxER OF HEALTH. — Born in Philadel- 
phia, Pa., March 23, 1851. He received his pre- 
paratory school education at the Mantua Academy, 
Philadelphia; prepared for Harvard, but instead 
went abroad to study; returning to Philadelphia 
he was graduated from the Mercantile College, and 
then studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1877; 
studied medicine and was graduated from the medi- 
cal school of the University of Pennsylvania in 
1886, having been honored by the trustees before 
graduation by an appointment to the position of 
Assistant Demonstrator of Physiology. He went 
abroad again to study and was graduated from the 
department of bacteriology of King's College, 
London ; took the course in the State College of 
Medicine, London, and afterwards worked in Pet- 
tenhoffer's Laboratorj' in Muench. While in Eu- 
rope he made an exhaustive study of the disposition 
of sewage and filtration of water for large cities. 
Upon his return in 1888, he was made professor 
of Hygiene in the medical school and Dean of the 
Auxiliary Department of Medicine of the Univers- 
ity of Pennsylvania. He left the university in 1890 
to become Professor of Bacteriology and Microscop- 
ical Technology at the Academy of Natural Science 
of Philadelphia; was elected executive curator in 
1892 and president in 1896, which last two posi- 
tions he still holds. He served for several years as 
a member of the Board of Education in Philadel- 
phia and as chairman of the Committee on Hygiene 
did much to improve the sanitary conditions of the 
schools of that city. 

Dr. Dixon is vice-president of the Ludwick In- 
stitute, vice-president of the Anti-Tuberculosis So- 

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S.'\MUEL G. DIXON, xM. D. 

ciety of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the Zoolog- 
ical Society of Philadelphia, a member of the board 
of managers of the Grandom Institute, a member of 
the Council of the American Philosophical Society 
and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a di- 
rector of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy of the 
University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the Col- 
lege of Physicians, member of the Philadelphia 
County Medical Society, American Medical Asso- 
ciation, American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, and in 1893 was made an honorarj' 
member of the Societe Nationale des Sciences Na- 
turelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg. He was 
one of the founders of the Geographical Society of 
Philadelphia. His publications cover a large field 
in hygiene and bacteriology but he is probably best 
known for his original and advanced work on the 
prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. In addi- 
tion to his official duties as Commissioner of Health, 
Dr. Dixon is a member of the State Water Supply 
Commission, State Quarantine Board, and Medical 
Council of Pennsylvania. On October 19, 1889, 
Dr. Dixon made known to the world through the 
Medical 'News, of Philadelphia, his discovery of the 
hitherto unrecognized forms of tubercle bacilli, 
through the employment of which he was able to 
secure partial immunity to tuberculosis in small ani- 
mals which were the subject of experiment, and 
which may eventually lead to the development of a 
cure for that disease. 






JOSEPH W. HUNTER 

JOSEPH W. HUNTER, 

State Highway Commissioner. — Born July 23, 
1853, on the Pont Reading farm in Haverford 
township, Delaware county, Pa.; when twelve 
years of age his parents moved to Lower Merion 
township, Montgomery county. Pa., and two years 
later they moved to Radnor township, Delaware 
county. Pa. ; was educated in public and private 
schools and finally entered Mantau Academy, in 
West Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 
1870, second in his class. He immediately secured 
a position with Samuel L. Smedley, Engineer and 
Surveyor of the nth Survey District of Pennsyl- 
vania, under whom he studied and practiced his 
chosen profession, remaining with his successor, 
Geo. W. Hancock ; afterward employed by Samuel 
M. Smedley, Chief Engineer of the City of Phila- 
delphia, to make topographical surveys of that city; 
was also engaged on map surveying; in 1875 he 
removed to Jenkintown, Montgomery county, 
where he has since resided, and been in business for 
himself, making a specialty of topographical en- 
gineering and farm surveying; was elected justice 
of the peace in 1878 and re-elected in 1883; was 
elected county surveyor in 1882 and in 1887 was 
elected to the office of register of wills of Mont- 
gomery county; since 1890 he has been actively 
engaged in the practice of civil engineering and sur- 
veying, turning his attention more directly to the 

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improvement of county roads and the building of 
stone roads ; is a member of the commission ap- 
pointed by the courts of Philadelphia and Delaware 
counties to locate and adjust the boundary lines be- 
tween said counties ; member of the Engineers' 
Club of Philadelphia, American Society of Testing 
Materials, and the American Road Makers' Asso- 
ciation; was appointed State Highway Commis- 
sioner by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker June 
23, 1903- 



JAMES MADISON SHUMAKER, 

Superintendent of Public Grounds and 
Buildings. — Born in Fairfield county, Ohio, July 
8, 1 851; parents moved to Pennsylvania when he 
was a child and located in Lycoming county where 
he received a common school education; in 1874 he 
removed to Cambria county and engaged in mercan- 
tile business; has always been a staunch Republican 
and in 1874 '^'^s elected sheriff of Cambria county 
by six hundred majority, although the county was at 
that time about eight hundred Democratic ; in No- 
vember, 1900, he was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives and served during the session of 1 90 1. 
His home is in Johnstown and he is actively identi- 
fied with various enterprises there, being president 
and general manager of the Consumer's Ice Com- 
pany, a trustee of the Johnstown Savings Bank, and 




JAMES MADISON SHUMAKER 



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Binding by Governor Pennypacker March 24, 1903, 
and was reappointed, under the new printing law on 
February 8, 1905. 



ALBERT NEVIN POMEROY 

a director of the Johnstown Trust Company; is 
also a trustee of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial 
Hospital; he was appointed Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Grounds and Buildings by Governor Penny- 
packer on January 21, 1903. 



THOMAS LYNCH MONTGOMERY, 

State Librarian. — Born on March 4, 1862, at 
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Graduated from 
the Episcopal Academy in 1879 and the University 
of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, in 1884. Has 
been identified with library interests for many years, 
having been trustee of the Apprentices' Library of 
Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia and 
is chairman of the Library Committee of the latter. 
He established the first branch library of the sys- 
tem at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in 
1892; is a life member of the Library Association, 
the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Ameri- 
can Historical Association, and the Philobiblon 
Club. Honorary member of the Dauphin County 
Historical Society and the Wyoming Historical and 
Geological Society. He organized the Pennsylva- 
nia Library Club in 1890 and was one of the 
founders of the Keystone Library Association. Held 
the position of actuary and librarian of the Wag- 
ner Institute of Science for seventeen years. Was 
appointed State Librarian by Governor Penny- 
packer, February 3, 1903. 



ALBERT NEVIN POMEROY, 

Superintendent of Public Printing and 
Binding. — Born in Philadelphia May 27, 1859; 
after residing there and at Pomeroy, Chester county, 
until 1874 moved to Chambersburg, where he pur- 
sued his studies at the Chambersburg Academy; in 
1878 he entered the office of the Repository, his 
father, the late Hon. John M. Pomeroy, being edi- 
tor and proprietor; in 1885 Mr. Pomeroy and his 
brother became associated with their father in the 
publishing and printing business ; later the two 
brothers conducted the business alone, and in 1 891 
Mr. Pomeroy became the sole owner of the business, 
and still conducts it; in 1887 was elected chairman 
of the Republican County Committee and re-elected 
in 1888 and 1889; served as clerk in the office of the 
Secretary of the Commonwealth from 1887 to 1 891, 
when he resigned ; was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1894, and again elected in 1900; was 
appointed Superintendent of Public Printing and 

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THOiMAS LYNCH MONTGOMERY 




JOHN C. GROOME 

JOHN C. GROOME, 

Superintendent of State Police. — Born in 
Philadelphia in 1862; educated in the Protestant- 
Episcopal Academy, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1878; in 1880 he became associated 
with his father in the iron business; in 1884 pur- 
chased a farm in Virginia, where he resided until 
1889, when he returned to Philadelphia and en- 
gaged in business. In 1882 he enlisted as a private 
in the First City Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, 
and went through the various grades until he was 
elected captain in 1896, which office he now holds, 
served with his troop during the Spanish-American 
War, enlisting April 28, 1898, and was mustered 
out November 29, 1898, during which time he saw 
service at Mt. Gretna, Camp Alger, Newport News 
and Porto Rica. Was appointed Superintendent of 
State Police July i, 1905, by Governor Penny- 
packer. 



quently abandoned it for literary pursuits, and in 
1887 was attached to the staff of the Public Ledger, 
and for thirteen years was one of its associate editors 
and leader writers. In 1892 he was chosen botanist 
of the Perry Relief expedition to North Greenland, 
and on his return wrote a book on Arctic Travels, 
also several scientific pamphlets published by the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, of which he is a 
member; is also a voluminous writer of descriptive 
matter and outdoor life for high class magazines. 
In 1887 Mr. Meehan met Henry C. Ford, then 
president of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, and 
being a devoted angler became intensely interested 
in fish cultural work; on Mr. Ford's death in 1895, 
the Board of Fish Commission appointed him assist- 
and secretary and statistician of the board; in 1902, 
upon the resignation of D. P. Corwin, of Pitts- 
burg, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, by Gov- 
ernor Stone, when he was elected corresponding 
secretary of the board ; was reappointed by Gover- 
nor Pennypacker in 1903, and when the Board of 
Fish Commission was abolished and the Department 
of Fisheries created, he was appointed Commissioner 
of Fisheries by Governor Pennypacker on June 2, 
1903. He has compiled all the reports of the Fish 
Commission since 1895, and in addition compiled a 
pamphlet in 1892, entitled "Fish, Fishing and Fish- 
eries of Pennsylvania," for distribution at the Co- 
lumbia Exposition at Chicago. Under the admin- 
istration of Commissioner Meehan, the fishery work 



WILLIAM EDWARD MEEHAN, 

Commissioner of Fisheries. — Born in Holmes- 
burg, Philadelphia county. Pa., August 31, 1853, 
eldest son of Professor Thomas Meehan, State 
Botanist and eminent vegetable biologist; educated 
in the private schools in Philadelphia county ; 
learned the nursery and florist business but subse- 

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WILLIAM EUWARU MEEHAN 




FREDERIC W. FLEITZ 

of .Pennsylvania has taken first rank among the 
States, and in many particulars equals that of the 
United States Government. The annual output of 
fish in three years has increased from 70,000,000 to 
400,000,000. 



FREDERIC W. FLEITZ, 

Deputy Attorney General. — Born in Wells- 
boro, Pa., March i, 1867. Was Transcribing 
Clerk House of Representatives 1 889-1 891, Jour- 
nal Clerk 1893, Reading Clerk 1897, secretary 
State League of Republican Clubs 1895 to 1897 — 
president of foregoing in 1890 and 1891 — chair- 
man Republican State Convention in 1903, and 
many times delegate to State Conventions. 



JOHN E. FOX, 

State Senator. — Born in Hummelstovvn, Pa., 
November 27, 1861 ; educated at Lafayette Col- 
lege, Easton, Pa., graduated with the class of 1885; 
two years later he received the degree of Master of 
Arts, and is now a trustee of that college ; spent 
two years in teaching ; read law two years with the 
firm of Weiss & Gilbert, of Harrisburg, Pa. ; ad- 
mitted to practice at the Dauphin county bar in 
1888, and has since continued to practice his pro- 
fession ; a delegate to the Republican National Con- 
vention at Minneapolis in 1892, has always been 
a staunch Republican, but never before held any 
political office; was elected to the Senate in 1900 
and re-elected November, 1904; was the author of 
the bill passed in 1901 appropriating $4,000,000 for 
the new Capitol building and a member of the 
Capitol Dedication Commission. 



J. HENRY COCHRAN, 

State Senator. — Born January 15, 1845; edu- 
cated in the common schools of Calais, Maine; re- 
moved to Pennsylvania in 1862, where he has since 
resided ; is a lumberman and banker ; served as 
member of the Senate sessions of 1895, 1897, 1899, 
1 90 1, 1903 and 1905; re-elected if 



SAM MATT FRIDY, 

Deputy Auditor General. — Born March 11, 
1837, in Mountville, Lancaster county. Pa. Has 
been a farmer, auctioneer, scrivener and convey- 
ancer and school teacher. 

Served as clerk in the War Department during 
the war ; was clerk in the office of the Secretary 
of the Commonwealth for fifteen years ; prothono- 
tary of Lancaster county ; Collector of Internal 
Revenue, Ninth district of Pennsylvania, and Dep- 
uty Auditor General since 1895. 

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SAM matt FRIDY' 




BOIES PENROSE 



BOIES PENROSE, 

United States Senator. — Born in Philadelphia 
November i, i860; was prepared for college by 
private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia; 
was graduated from Harvard College in 1881 ; read 
law with Wayne MacVeagh and George Tucker 
Bispham, and was admitted to the bar in 1883; 
practised his profession in Philadelphia for several 
years; was elected to the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives from the Eighth Philadelphia dis- 
trict in 1884; was elected to the Pennsylvania State 
Senate from the Sixth Philadelphia district in 1886; 
re-elected in 1890, and again in 1894; was elected 
President pro tempore of the Senate in 1889, and 
re-elected in 1891 ; was a delegate to the Republi- 
can National Conventions of 1 900 and 1904; was 
chairman of the Republican State Committee in 
1903-1905; was elected a member of the National 
Republican Committee from Pennsylvania in 1904; 
was elected to the United States Senate to succeed 
J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat March 4, 
1897; was the unanimous choice of the Republican 
caucus of both houses and was re-elected by the full 
party vote in the Legislature of 1903. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1909. 



MARLIN E. OLMSTED, 

Member of Congress. — ^Was born in Ulysses 
township. Potter county, Pa., and received his edu- 
cation in the common schools and in Coudersport 
Academy. He was appointed Assistant Corporation 
Clerk when scarcely of age by Auditor General 
Hartranft, afterwards Governor of Pennsylvania. 
One year later, although the youngest clerk in the 
ofTice, he was appointed Corporation Clerk. Mr. 
Olmsted was retained in that capacity by Auditor 
General Harrison Allen. Soon after the expiration 
of General Allen's term he retired from that 
ofKce. Mr. Olmsted read law with the late Judge 
John W. Simonton, subsequently President Judge 
of the Twelfth Judicial District, and was admitted 
to the bar of Dauphin County November 25, 1878; 
to the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 
May 16, 1 88 1, and to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the United States November 12, 1884. In 
the practice of the law he has been eminently suc- 
cessful. In 1 89 1 he was elected to represent Dau- 
phin county in the proposed constitutional conven- 
tion. Mr. Olmsted was first elected to Congress in 
1896, by the great plurality of 23,066, largely due 
to a contest between two Democratic candidates, 
resulting in a judicial ruling, excluding them both 
from the Democratic ticket. In 1898 he was again 
elected by a plurality of 9,426, and in 1900 by 22,- 
396, the Democrats having made no regular nomi- 




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GEORGE F. HUFF 

nation against him. At these three elections he ran 
in the Fourteenth District. In igoi the district 
was changed to the Eighteenth District and Perry 
county was taken from it and Cumberland was 
substituted. In 1902 his plurality was 8,478 and 
in 1904 it reached the enormous figure of 15,333. 
Mr. Olmsted's skill and tact in the administration 
of parliamentary law have caused him to be called 
frequently to preside over the House during the 
passage of important measures. In the presidential 
campaign of 1904 his speeches in Congress, es- 
pecially in support of protective tariff, were more 
extensively quoted in Republican campaign text- 
books than those of any other Congressman. As 
chairman of the Election Committee of the House 
his course has elicited words of praise from even 
his political opponents. He stands near the head 
of the important Committee on Insular Affairs. 
Congressman Olmsted, reelected by a handsome 
majorit}' in igo6, was grand marshal of the dedi- 
cation parade. 



GEORGE F. HUFF, 



Commonwealth, especially, has felt his work as a 
developer of its chief resources, the great bitumi- 
nous coal fields. By reason of his energy it has be- 
come a vast bee-hive of industry that has added 
millions and millions of dollars to the wealth of the 
old Keystone State. 

Colonel Huff is a prominent figure in public life, 
as one of the leading Republicans of the State of 
Pennsylvania. On numerous occasions he has been 
signally honored by the people of his community. 
He served in the State Senate from Westmoreland 
county from 1884 to 1888, and was elected to the 
Fifty-second Congress from the old Westmoreland- 
Indiana-Jefferson and Armstrong district. He 
also represented the State as Congressman-at-Large 
in the Fifty-fourth Congress, and represented the 
new Westmoreland-Butler district in the Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and is again 
nominated this year to succeed himself in the Six- 
tieth Congress. 



WILLIAM HARRISON GRAHAM, 

Member of Congress. — Born in Allegheny, Penn- 
sylvania, August 3, 1844. He is president of the 
Mercantile Trust Company of Pittsburg; Mem- 
ber of House of Representatives for four years ; 
Recorder of Deeds, Allegheny county for nine years 
and a Member of Congress for six years. Mr. Gra- 
ham is also a member of the Capitol Commission. 



Member of Congress. — He is a resident of 
Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and is a citizen 
who is closely identified with the developments of 
the State of Pennsylvania. As a man of affairs he 
ranks with the leaders. The western part of the 

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WILLIAM H.'^RRISON GRAHAM 




H. KURD CASSEL 



H. BURD CASSEL, 



seventh Congress and was re-elected in 1902 to the 
Fiftj'-eighth Congress; and again in 1904 to the 
Fifty-ninth Congress. He is chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Accounts, and a member of the Elections 
No. 3. He is proprietor of the firm of A. N. Cassel 
& Son, wholesale and retail lumber business. Mr. 
Cassel is a member of the Young Republican Club 
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the Boies Penrose and 
Union Republican Clubs, of Philadelphia, and of 
the Elks, of Lancaster. 



ELIAS DEEMER, 



Member of Congress. — Born in Marietta, Lan- 
caster county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1855. His 
father, Abram Neff Cassel, who died a few years 
ago, at the age of eighty-five, was one of the most 
prominent citizens of Lancaster county and had a 
long and successful business career, in the line of 
lumber. 

After passing through the public schools of Ma- 
rietta, he finished his education at the Columbia 
Classical Institute. At an early age he became in- 
terested in his father's lumber business, being sole 
proprietor thereof on his father's death. Took an 
interest in politics at a very early age and has al- 
ways been a steadfast Republican. So ardent an 
enthusiastic follower of the dominant party of his 
State was he that he was a member of the Lancaster 
Republican County Committee when only twenty- 
one years of age, and subsequently held the po- 
sition of chairman of said committee. He took an 
active part in the National Republican Convention 
held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896, and 1898 he 
was nominated and elected to the lower house of 
the State Legislature, a place previously filled by his 
father. 

Mr. Cassel was first elected as a Representative 
to Congress in 1901, when chosen to fill the unex- 
pired term of the late Mariot Brosius, in the Fifty- 

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Member of Congress. — Elias Deemer, son of 
John Deemer, acquired his early education in the 
public schools and under private instructors. In the 
spring of 1859 he became bookkeeper, collector and 
salesman for W. N. Treichler, of Kinterville, who 
was an extensive manufacturer and dealer in lum- 
ber, and in 1861, following the inauguration of the 
Civil War, joined the Union Army in the month of 
August as a member of Company E. One Hundred 
and Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under 
Capt. George T. Harvey, and of Col. H. H. Davis, 
of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In 1868 he located 
in Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pa., where he 
has since made his home. Here he turned his at- 
tention to the lumber industry. He is now and has 
been since 1893 president of the Williamsport Na- 




ELIAS DEEMER 




EDWIN K. MCCONKEY 

tional Bank, and is a stockholder and director in the 
J. K. Richel Furniture Company and in the Ly- 
coming Calcining Company, and his business en- 
terprise and sound judgment have been important 
factors in the successful control of a number of im- 
portant and industrial business enterprises, which 
have contributed to the prosperity of the city of 
Williamsport, as well as to the success of the indi- 
vidual stockholders. He is also president of the 
Deemer Manufacturing Company, a corporation re- 
cently organized to conduct an extensive lumber 
operation in Mississippi. He is now and has been 
for a number of years a member of the Williamsport 
Board of Trade. He was elected to that city coun- 
cil in the spring of 1888, and in the organization of 
council was elected its president, and was re-elected 
in 1889. He was elected a member of the Fifty- 
seventh Congress in the fall of 1900; was again 
elected a member of the Fiftj'-eighth Congress in the 
fall of 1902; and was once more nominated for the 
third time — an unprecedented occurrence in the 
Congressional district which he represented — and 
was re-elected in the fall of 1904 a member of the 
Fifty-ninth Congress, receiving 18,807 votes to 
ii>959 votes for the Democratic opponent, thus se- 
curing the largest majority over a Democrat ever 
given in the district to a Republican. 



EDWIN K. McCONKEY, 

State Senator. — Born in Wrightsville, York 
county. Pa., December 11, 1864; educated in the 
public schools and the York Collegiate Institute; 
later he became associated with McConkey Broth- 
ers, at Wrightsville; in 1886 he entered the service 
of the Pullman Company, and by rapid promotion 
soon became assistant superintendent of the Phila- 
delphia district; in 1893 was elected assistant sec- 
retary of the Farmers' Fire Insurance Company, of 
York, and in 1900 promoted to the position of sec- 
retary and treasurer; is a director of the York Na- 
tional Bank, York Water Company, York Gas 
Company, and Guardian Trust Company; elected 
to the Senate in November, 1902, being the first 
Republican ever elected to the Senate from York 
county. 



JACOB BOLARD, 

State Senator. — Born June 5, 1837, and raised 
on a farm in Spring township, Crawford county. 
Pa.; in 1862 he enlisted in Company B, One Hun- 
dred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and the following year was promoted 
to hospital steward; in 1865 was again promoted to 
captain of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety- 
seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, in which rank 
he served until the close of the war. In 1874 he 




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JACOB C. STINEMAN 

was commissined by Governor Hartranft, captain 
on the staff of the Fifteenth Regiment, National 
Guard, and was re-appointed in 1879 by Governor 
Hoyt; in 1890 he served on the Pennsylvania Road 
Commission being appointed by Governor Beaver; 
served as president of the Crawford County Agri- 
cultural Society for eight successive years; is now 
engaged in the manufacture of leather and raising 
of cattle and fine carriage horses; is president of 
the First National Bank, at Cambridge Springs, 
where he resides; served as member of the House of 
Representatives, session of 1895; was elected to the 
Senate in November, 1902. 



tee in 1891; is a director of the Citizens National 
Bank of Johnstown, Second National Bank of Al- 
toona, president South Fork First National Bank 
and President South Fork Water Company; for a 
number of years has been engaged in farming, and 
mining and shipping coal ; member of House of 
Representatives 1903 and 1905; elected to the Sen- 
ate November 1896, November 1900, over Fusion 
candidate by a majority of 6,257; re-elected to the 
Senate November 1904; delegate to the Republi- 
can State Convention 1902. 



STERLING R. CATLIN, 

State Senator. — Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 
1842; is a grandson of General William Ross; 
educated in the public and private schools, and sub- 
sequently completed course in Polytechnic College 
of Philadelphia; served an apprenticeship of four 
years at trade of machinist and followed the occu- 
pation for ttwelve years ; during the Civil War 
served in the Thirtieth Pennsylvania Regiment ; 
crossed the plain in 1864 and was one of the original 
settlers in Helena, Montana; later on went to Cali- 
fornia and for five years was Superintendent of 
Machinery at Mare Island Navy Yard, after which 
he returned to Pennsylvania and was a member of 
the Wilkes-Barre council for nine years; elected 
State Senator in November, 1904. 



'W-. 



JACOB C. STINEMAN, 

State Senator. — Was born in Richland township, 
now Adams, April 9, 1842; was raised on a farm 
and educated in the common schools; in early life 
he engaged in teaching school and working his 
father's farm; enlisted in Company F, One Hun- 
dred and Ninety-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and served to the close of the war, after 
which he engaged in farming and doing common 
labor at coal mines; was school director for eigh- 
teen years; elected sheriff 1888, and was in office 
at the time of the Johnstown flood ; was a delegate 
to the Republican State Convention in 1889 and 
1897, chairman of the Republican County Commit- 

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STERLING R. CATLIN 




cate the New Capitol; author of the present law 
for the improvement of roads and the act providing 
for the dedication of the new Capitol. 



WILLIAM C. SPROUL 

WILLIAM C. SPROUL, 

State Senator. — Born in Colerain township, Lan- 
caster county, Pa., September 16, 1870; moved to 
Chester, Delaware county, in early boyhood, and 
has since resided in that city; attended the public 
schools, graduating from the Chester High School 
in 1887; entered Swarthmore College the same 
year and graduated with honors in 1891; entered 
business at once, purchased a half interest in the 
Chester Daily Times, with which he has been since 
associated as editor and proprietor. In 1898 he was 
elected president of the Delaware River Iron Ship 
Building and Engine Works (Roach's Shipyard) ; 
1900 organized the Seaboard Steel Casting Com- 
pany of which he is president ; is also president of 
the Chester Shipping Company and the River 
Front Improvement Company; is president of the 
Coal River Railway, the Spruce River Coal Land 
Company, the Kanawha Valley Traction Com- 
pany, and the Camden Interstate Railway of West 
Virginia, and is interested in other enterprises; is 
a trustee of the Swarthmore College and a director 
of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble 
Minded Children, at Elwyn ; is a member of the 
Union League, of Philadelphia; was elected to the 
Senate in 1896, re-elected in 1900 and again in 
1904; elected President pro tempore of the Sen- 
ate at the close of the session in 1903 and re-elected 
in January, 1905; member of Commission to Dedi- 

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SAMUEL P. WHITE, 

State Senator. — Born in New Brighton, Beaver 
county, Pa., September, 1847; educated in the 
common schools and is a graduate of the East- 
man's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York; 
occupation, contractor and manufacturer; served in 
the three months' emergency State troops in 1863, 
when fifteen years of age; was a member of the 
Republican County Committee in 1884 and chair- 
man of same in 1885; member of the State Com- 
mittee in 1888; treasurer of County Committee in 
1889; delegate to the State Convention in 1900; 
nominee of Beaver county for State Senator in 
1886, 1890, 1894 and 1902, the county making no 
nomination in 1898, the nomination by agreement 
going to the other county in the district ; was elected 
to the Senate in 1894, serving for four years; re- 
elected in November, 1902. Senator White was 
chairman of Appropriations Committee and largely 
instrumental in having the Uniform Primary Law 
passed at the extra session of 1906. 




SAMUEL P. WHITE 



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HENRY HARRIS CUMMINGS 

HENRY HARRIS CUMMINGS, 

State Senator. — Born at Monmouth, 111., Decem- 
ber I, 1840; educated at Oberlin College, Ohio; 
graduated 1862; enlisted in the summer of 1862 
in the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry; served in the Fourteenth Army Corps; 
participated in all its campaigns and most of its 
battles; discharged at the close of the war as a 
captain; settled soon after at Tidioute, Pa., where 
he has since resided ; was actively engaged in oil 
business, farming, lumbering, manufacturing and 
banking and has now retired ; he is and has been 
for twenty-six years president of the Tidioute 
school board ; was elected a delegate to the Republi- 
can National Convention in 1888; was commander 
Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., 1895-6; 
was elected to the Senate in 1898; re-elected in No- 
vember, 1902. 



HENRY F. WALTON, 

Speaker of House of Representatives. — Born 
in Stroudsburg, Monroe county. Pa., October 2, 
1858, and represents the 23rd district of Phila- 
delphia. When but a year old his parents moved to 
that city, in the public schools of which and under 
private tutors he received his early education, fol- 
lowed by his entrance into the law office of Hon. 
Wayne MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, 
Esq. Shortly afterward he was appointed librarian 
of the law library of Mr. Bispham. In 1876 he 
was registered as a law student in the latter's office 
and in the meantime was a member and officer of 
the Law Academy. He was admitted to practice 
at the Bar of Philadelphia October 4, 1879, two 
days after he had attained his majority, and imme- 
diately entered the law office of Francis Rawle, Esq. 
Charles F. Warwick, city solicitor of Philadelphia, 
appointed Mr. Walton as one of his assistants in 
April, 1884, and retained his services until he was 
elected to the House of Representatives in 1890, in 
recognition of the work he did in the ranks of the 
Republican party, to which he has been always 
ardently attached. In 1892 his constituents in the 
Twenty-third district, which Mr. Walton had rep- 
resented, re-elected him and in 1894 again honored 
him with a re-election. The Pennsylvania delega- 
tion in 1893 presented him for the Speakership of 
the House, but on the day of the Republican caucus 



JAMES P. McNICHOL, 

State Senator. — Born July 3, 1864, in Philadel- 
phia; educated in the public schools and Pierce's 
Business College ; at an early age he engaged in the 
general contracting business with W. J. McNichol 
Brothers, and, upon the death of the head of the 
firm, became its title member ; served as a member 
of select council in 1898; elected to the Senate in 
November, 1904. 

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JAMES P. MCNICHOL 




HENRY F. WALTON 

he withdrew as a candidate for the office and in the 
caucus placed in nomination Mr. Caleb C. Thomp- 
son, of Warren, who was elected. In 1893 he was 
appointed chairman on the Committee on Judiciary 
General and served on other committees which had 
important work to perform. Mr. Walton was one 
of the prominent men of the House and in 1895 
was elected Speaker of that body without Republi- 
can opposition. In 1898 he was appointed solicitor 
to the Sheriff of Philadelphia county, which posi- 
tion he resigned because of his election for the fourth 
time to the House of Representatives. The ability 
with %vhich he presided over the House in 1895 sug- 
gested him as a candidate for his old place in 
1903, and when the Republican caucus met, all the 
candidates for the office had withdrawn, and Mr. 
Walton was a second time complimented with a 
unanimous nomination by his party. This honor 
was duplicated in 1905 for a third time when he 
was nominated without the semblance of opposition. 
He presided over the extra session of the Legisla- 
ture in 1906 which thus placed more sessions to his 
credit than any other Speaker. During the ses- 
sions of 1903, 1905 and 1906 he made a record 
for his physical endurance, the dispatch of business 
and the maintenance of order. He was punctual in 
his attendance and never left the chair when legisla- 
tion of importance was under consideration. It is 
no flattery to him to say that no presiding officer 

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of the House ever displayed more signal ability in 
the responsible position. Mr. Walton is a member 
of the Union League of Philadelphia, and a member 
and ex-president of the Five O'clock Club; he is 
also a member of the Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania, the Penn Club and a score of other prom- 
inent societies and organizations. As a campaigner, 
he has shown great effectiveness. He was married 
in 1882 to Miss Ella G. Norman and is the head 
of a family of four daughters and three sons. 



CHARLES L. BROWN, 

St.^te Senator. — Born in Philadelphia, July 6, 
1864; educated in the public schools, leaving to 
enter commercial life ; while so engaged he pre- 
pared for and entered Lehigh LTniversity for a civil 
engineering course, but was forced to abandon this 
purpose through illness; later he entered the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania for a course in law and, 
graduating, was admitted to the bar of Philadel- 
phia, and has since been engaged in the active prac- 
tice; in 1891, 1893 and 1903, was elected to com- 
mon council, and in 1894 to select council; elected 
to the Senate in November, 1896, declining the 
nomination in I goo; again elected to the Senate in 
November, 1904. 




CHARLES L. BROWN 



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BRYAN HILL OSBORNE 

BRYAN HILL OSBORNE, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Franklin, 
Venango county. Pa., August lo, 1858; educated 
in the public schools, and was graduated from the 
Cleveland High School in 1876; attended the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, class of 
1880; read law with McCalmont and Osborn, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1 881, immediately 
becoming a partner of the firm ; upon dissolution 
of this partnership, he practiced his profession in his 
own name ; has always been an ardent Republican ; 
served two terms in the city council ; was dele- 
gate to the State Convention in 1904; Mayor of 
Franklin in 1896; elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives 1902; re-elected in November, 1904; 
chairman of Judiciary General Committee, session 
1905-6. 



MYRON MATSON, 



State Senator. — Born September 13, 1850, in 
Rushford, New York; was educated in the 
common schools and at Tenbrook Academy 
at Franklinville. In 1870 he left home and 
went to Tidioute, Warren county. Pa., where he 
engaged in the oil business, which occupation he has 
followed since, holding interests in various oil 



fields throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 
He is president of the Victor Oil Company and 
the Matson Oil Company, and is interested in the 
Devonian Oil Company. Is also engaged in mining, 
being interested in the Inca Mining Company opera- 
ting in Peru, South America, and the Bradford 
Alaska Mining Company of Alaska. From his 
early manhood he has been an ardent Republican, 
and an active worker in that party ; has been elected 
several times as delegate to county and State con- 
ventions ; served as chairman of the County Com- 
mittee of McKean county in 1898 and again in 
1902; elected to the Senate in 1900; re-elected in 
November, 1904. 



JOSIAH HOWARD, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Williams- 
port, Lycoming county. Pa., January 3, 1861; 
educated in the public schools, graduated in 1880; 
removed to Emporium, Pa., in 1887, since which 
time he has been engaged in the lumber business 
as a member of the C. B. Howard Company, with 
saw mills at Emporium ; was elected burgess of 
Emporium borough in 1902; elected to the House 
of Representatives in November, 1904; re-elected 
in 1906. 




JOSIAH HOWARD 



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JOHN H. FOW 

JOHN H. FOW, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Philadel- 
phia June 23, 1851, and is a great grandson of 
Matthew Fow, who served in Captain Harmar's 
company, of Colonel De Haas' regiment, the first 
Pennsylvania Battalion raised by order of Congress 
in Philadelphia, October 22, 1775. Mr. Fow is 
a graduate from the law office of Hon. F. Carroll 
Brewster, and has been practicing at the Philadel- 
phia bar since May 4, 1878; was a member of the 
Democratic State Committee for the years 1882 and 
1883; the first president and afterward vice-presi- 
dent of the Democratic State League for the years 
1888, 1889 and 1890; elected twice in 1886 and 
1887 as a member of councils of the city of Phila- 
delphia, and was appointed by Mayor King chair- 
man of the committee of the bi-centennial celebra- 
tion of the settlement of the State ; was also a mem- 
ber of the committee having in charge the Centen- 
nial celebration of the adoption of the Constitution 
in 1887, and was special correspondent for the 
Philadelphia Evening Star for a number of years; 
was a member of the House 1889, 189 1, 1893, 
1895, 1899 and the extraordinary session of 1906. 
At the session of 1899 he was by the vote of the 
House made the chairman of the celebrated investi- 
gating committee of that session; in 1895 he was 
appointed by Governor Hastings a member of the 
Atlanta Cotton Exposition to represent Pennsylva- 

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nia, and in 1906 a member of the State Capitol Ded- 
ication Committee by the Speaker of the House. 
Mr. Fow has a reputation as a lawyer in having 
more Acts of Assembly declared unconstitutional 
than any other member of the profession. 



CYRUS E. WOODS, 



State Senator. — Born in Clearfield, Pa., Sep- 
tember 3, 1861 ; was educated at Lafayette College, 
and has been actively engaged in the practice of law 
since his admission to the bar in 1890; elected to 
the Senate in 1900, and re-elected in November, 
1904; elected President pro tempore of the Sen- 
ate at the close of the session of 1905. 



CHARLES A. SNYDER, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Pillow, 
Dauphin county. Pa., April 16, 1867; educated in 
the public schools; was admitted to the Schuylkill 
County Bar 1889; has served as deputy district at- 
torney, city solicitor of Pottsville, county controller 
and county solicitor ; elected to House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1902, 1904, re-elected in November, 
1906. 




CHARLES A. SNYDER 



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JOHN OSCAR SHEATZ, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Lehigh 
county, Pa., February 27, 1855; educated in the 
public schools and spent one year in the prepara- 
tory department of Muhlenberg College, Allen- 
town ; was employed in the Baldwin Locomotive 
Works thirteen years, having had charge of differ- 
ent departments the last four years he was in their 
employ; left to engage in the coal business and is 
now in the real estate business ; is also treasurer of 
the Frank Queen Publishing Company of New 
York; was a member of the House of Representa- 
tives in 1902, 1904-1905; re-elected in November, 
1906. 



ANDREW ANDERSON THOMPSON, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Uniontown, 
Fayette county. Pa., October 25, 1880; attended 
Washington and Jefferson College and was gradu- 
ated from that institute in 1902, since which he has 
been employed in the First National Bank of 
Uniontown; elected to the House of Representa- 
tives in 1902 and re-elected in November 1904. 
He is now treasurer of the Thompson Connells- 
ville Coke Company, and is developing 1,600 acres 
of coal land in Fayette county. 





LAWRENCE B. COOK 

LAWRENCE B. COOK, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Indiana 
county. Pa., September 27, 1870; when quite 
young he removed with his parents to Pittsburgh ; 
was educated in the public and private schools, and 
while acquiring an education taught in the public 
and private schools of Allegheny county; in 1890 
he began the study of law, was admitted to the bar 
in December, 1892, since which time he has been 
engaged in the active practice of his profession; 
elected to the House of Representatives in 1902, 
1904; re-elected in November, 1906. 



ANDREW ANDERSON THOMPSON 



THOMAS H. GARVIN, 

Chief Clerk, House of Representatives. — 
Born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 23, 1857, edu- 
cated at public and private schools, served several 
years in council and as burgess of the borough of 
Sharon Hill in 1891 and 1892. He is engaged in 
the real estate and insurance business and is general 
manager of the Sharon Hill Real Estate Company. 
Was a member of the House of Representatives in 
1893, 1895 and 1897, and re-elected in November, 
1898. 

He has been Chief Clerk of the House of Repre- 
sentatives since 1 901. 

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FRANK B. McCLAIN, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in the city of 
Lancaster, Pa., April 14, 1864, and has lived there 
ever since ; attended the public schools and gradu- 
ated from the Lancaster city high school, June, 
1 881; engaged in the live stock business Febru- 
ary, 1884, ^nd has followed same to this time; was 
a member of the House of Representatives, sessions 
of 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904-1905, re- 
elected in November, 1906. 



ANDREW B. HITCHCOCK, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Caton, 
N. Y., May 15, 1863; removed to Tioga county 
with his parents in 1864; attended the public 
schools of the county and worked on a farm until 
1882; graduated from Mansfield State Normal 
School, class of 1884; taught in the public schools 
of the county until 1895; was principal of the 
schools of Knoxville for nine years; since 1895 has 
been engaged in the general insurance business; 
held the office of school director and was elected 
justice of the peace in 1897; a delegate to the Re- 
publican State Conventions in 1897 and 1899; 
elected to the House of Representatives in Novem- 
ber, 1900, 1902 and 1904; re-elected in November, 
1906. 





SAMUEL RIPP 

SAMUEL RIPP, 

Member of Legislature. — Born December 16, 
1862; at the age of fourteen entered upon a business 
career; at the present time is manager of a hotel; 
has always been a staunch Republican of the Elev- 
enth ward, and an active member of the executive 
committee of that ward ; served as a member of the 
Eleventh sectional school board for three years; 
elected to the House of Representatives in 1900, 
1902, 1904; re-elected in November, 1906. 



THOMAS H. GARVIN 



WILLIAM TRENTON CREASY, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Catawissa 
township, Columbia county. Pa., in 1856; was ed- 
ucated in the common schools, Catawissa Academy, 
and Bloomsburg State Normal School ; commenced 
teaching school at the age of sixteen ; is at pres- 
ent engaged in farming and fruit growing; was 
mercantile appraiser in 1893; has served as school 
director; was a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives, sessions of 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 
1904, and re-elected in November, 1906. In 1899 
he was the Democratic nominee for State Treasurer. 
In the session of 1899, he was the Democratic 
caucus nominee for Speaker of the House. Elected 
chairman of the Democratic State Committee in 
1901 and 1902. Candidate for Auditor General in 
1906. 

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JOHN P. ELKIN, 




HENRY BEATES, JR., M. D. 

HENRY BEATES, JR., M. D., 

President State Board Medical Examiners. — 
Born in Philadelphia December 20, 1857; a 
physician by profession; member and president of 
State Board of Medical Examiners of Pennsylvania 
and president National Conference of State Med- 
ical Examining and Licensing Boards. 



JOHN M. SCOTT, 



Former Attorney General. — Born in West 
Mahoning township, January 11, i860, received a 
common school education and graduated from the 
Indiana State Normal School. He afterward taught 
school for several years, graduated from the law 
department of the University of Michigan in 1884, 
and was admitted to the bar of Indiana county. 
In 1884, when but twenty-four years old, he was 
elected to the House of Representatives and re- 
elected to that body in 1886. He was president of 
the Indiana school board for many years and has 
been a member of the board of trustees of the In- 
diana State Normal School. He was Deputy At- 
torney General under Attorney General McCor- 
mick and in January, 1899, was appointed Attorney 
General by Governor Stone. On November 8, 
1904, he was elected Associate Justice of the Su- 
preme Court of Pennsylvania and was commissioned 
December 6, 1904. 



ROBERT PITCAIRN, 

Trustee Western Pennsylvania Hospital for 
Insane. — Born in Johnstone, Scotland, and en- 
gaged in the railroad business (Pennsylvania Rail- 
road) up to June 1st, igo6. 



State Senator. — Born September 19, 1858, in the 
city of Philadelphia; received a careful education; 
studied law and admitted to practice in Philadel- 
phia on November 12, 1881, since which time he has 
pursued his profession. Elected a member of the 
Eighth section school board, serving two con- 
secutive terms; member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, sessions of 1887 and 1889; re-elected a 
member of the House of Representatives for the 
session of 1893 from the district he represented in 
the sessions of 1887 and 1889; again a member of 
the House of Representatives, sessions of 1895 and 
1897; elected to the Senate in November, 1898, 
and re-elected in November, 1902; elected to Presi- 
dent pro tempore of the Senate at the close of the 
session of 1901 and re-elected in January, 1903 ; 
re-elected to the Senate 1906. 

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ROBERT PITCAIRN 




sentatives of the State, many officers of the depart- 
i\?ents and prominent citizens of different States, as 
well as other Pennsylvanians not in official life. 



WESLEY R. ANDREWS 



WESLEY R. ANDREWS, 

Chairman Republican State Committee. — 
Born at Sugar Grove, Warren county, Pa., De- 
cember 23, 1837. He served as an officer in a New 
York regiment in the war for the suppression of the 
rebellion, and afterwards engaged in the newspaper 
business. He was editor and proprietor of the 
Meadville Tribune-Republican for many years. 
Though a stalwart worker in the Republican ranks 
he was never a candidate for office. Many news- 
papers of the State have endorsed him as an avail- 
able candidate for Governor, and at two State Con- 
ventions of his party he was offered the support of 
several counties, but refused to have his name men- 
tioned. He was appointed secretary of the Repub- 
lican State Committee in 1895 and elected chair- 
man of the committee in 1905, and re-elected in 
1906. Colonel Andrews knows personally about 
all the local party leaders in the State, and is well 
posted on the political condition of every section. 
His home is at Meadville, and no matter what the 
intervening distance may be, he is always there on 
election days. He is clerk of the United States 
Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, 
and private secretary to Senator Penrose and is 
president of the Pennsylvania Club, one of the best 
located and finest furnished clubs in Washington, 
including in its members the Senators and Repre- 



W. W. GRIEST, 



Former Secretary of the Commonwealth. — 
Born September 22, 1859, in Christiana, Lancaster 
county. Graduated from the Millersville State 
Normal School in 1876, taught school for three 
years and for several years was one of the editors 
of the Lancaster Inquirer. He was five times 
elected Chief Clerk of the Lancaster County Com- 
missioners and was also a member of the Lancaster 
city school board. He was appointed Secretary 
of the Commonwealth by Governor Stone, Janu- 
ary 17, 1899. 



GEORGE A. VARE, 



State Senator. — Born in the district of South- 
wark, Philadelphia, February 7, 1859; educated in 
the public schools of that city; is a contractor on 
public and private work ; was a delegate to the State 
conventions of 1889, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, 1899, 
1901 and 1903; member from the First legislative 
district in the House of Representatives 1891, 1893, 
and 1895; elected to the Senate in 1896 and 1900, 
and again elected in November, 1904. 



FREDERICK A. GODCHARLES, 

State Senator. — Born in Northumberland, Pa., 
June 3, 1872; in 1875 removed with his parents 
to Milton; educated in the public schools and La- 
fayette College, graduating from the former in 1888 
and the latter in 1893; worked his way through 
the various departments of the Milton Nail Works 
until 1896, when he became the title member of the 
firm now known as F. A. Godcharles Company; 
enlisted as a volunteer in the Twelfth Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Regiment in the Spanish-American War 
on May 12, 1898, and in October of the same year 
was mustered out with his company as a corporal ; 
appointed battalion sergeant major when the 
Twelfth Regiment of N. G. P. was reorganized, 
and later first lieutenant and inspector of rifle prac- 
tice on the staff of Col. J. B. Coryell, and retained 
by his successor. Col. C. M. Clement, which com- 
mission he novv' holds; was a member of the House 
of Representatives of 1901 ; candidate for Con- 
gress in the Sixteenth district in 1902; elected to 
the Senate in November, 1904. 



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JOHN W. WOODSIDE 

JOHN W. WOODSIDE, 

President of Valley Forge Commission. — 
Born in Penn township, Chester county, Pa., No- 
vember 21, 1838. He engaged in the mercantile 
business in Delaware county; member of Stewart 
Ralph and Company, snuff manufacturers, from 
1865 to 1899; organized the Tonopah Mining 
Company of Nevada; treasurer of the West Ches- 
ter Street Railway Company; treasurer of Damas- 
cus Nickel Sheet Company ; treasurer of Ely Cen- 
tral Company of Nevada; director of American 
Snuff Company and director in other corporations; 
from 1869 secretary of the National Tobacco Com- 
pany of the United States; represented Pennsylva- 
nia in the Centennial Celebration of the Inaugura- 
tion of Washington as first president, in New York 
in 1889; also member of the Columbia Commission 
in 1890 to 1896; member of the Centennial Com- 
mission to Tennessee; and president of the Omaha 
Commission ; for the past eight years president of 
the Valley Forge Commission. 



drafted the State Constitution, operative until sup- 
planted by that of 1874. His father was Clement 
Biddle, Quartermaster General under George 
Washington during the Revolutionary War. Cad- 
walader Biddle's mother was Sarah Caldwell Kep- 
pele, daughter of Michael Keppele, once Mayor of 
Philadelphia. Mr. Biddle was educated in the 
school of Dr. J. W. Faires and at the University of 
Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1856, he 
then studied law at the university and received the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1859. The same 
year he was admitted to the bar. He was secretary 
and treasurer of the University of Pennsylvania 
from 1862 to 1882, and since 1884 he has uninter- 
ruptedly filled the office of General Agent and Sec- 
retary of the Board of Public Charities of the State. 
The bulk of the work imposed upon the board is 
done by Mr. Biddle. All institutions requiring state 
financial support are required to give notice to the 
General Agent on or before the first day of Novem- 
ber of each year of the amount of any application 
they may intend to make to the Legislature and of 
the purpose to which it is intended to be applied. 
There is prepared for the consideration of the Leg- 
islature ever}' two years by Mr. Biddle a report 
showing the amount recommended by the Board of 
Charities, to be appropriated to the various char- 
itable, reformatory and correctional institutions. 

[Mr. Biddle has died since the above sketch was 
written.] 



CADWALADER BIDDLE. 

General Agent and Secretary of the 
Board of Public Charities. — Born in Philadel- 
phia October 28, 1837. His father was James C. 
Biddle, a member of the convention in 1838, which 

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JAMES M. GUFFEY 

JAMES M. GUFFEY, 

Member of Committee, Western Pennsylva- 
nia Hospital for Insane. — The largest individ- 
ual oil and gas operator and owner of coal lands in 
the United States. Member Democratic National 
Committee and leader of Pennsylvania Democracy. 



ANDREW BAIRD DUNSMORE, 

Member of Legislature. — Born in Morris Run, 
January 4, 1866; shortly thereafter removed with 
his parents to Arnot, Pa. ; worked about the mines 
and later on his father's farm in Covington town- 
ship ; attended the public schools of Arnot and 
Blossburg; was graduated from the Mansfield 
State Normal School in 1884 and took a scientific 
course at same institution the following year ; was 
principal of Arnot schools for two terms ; read law 
with Mitchell & Cameron, of Wellsboro ; admit- 
ted to the bar in November, 1889, and has since 
practiced his profession ; was a delegate to the Re- 
publican State Convention in 1893 and chairman 
of the Republican County Committee in 1894; in 
1895 was elected district attorney of Tioga county, 
and re-elected in 1898; elected to the House of 
Representatives in November, 1904, re-elected 1906. 



LLOYD B. HUFF, 



Trustee State College. — Born at Greensburg, 
Pa., in December, 1871. He is engaged in the coal 
and coke business, banking, street railway, and sev- 
eral other very important enterprises. 

He is a Trustee of the State College and a mem- 
ber of the Republican State Central Committee and 
was Assistant Comrnissary General on Governor 
Hastings' staff. 



EDWARD A. IRVIN, 

State Senator. — Born at Curwensville, Pa., Janu- 
ary 13, 1838; educated in common schools and Mt. 
Holly Academy and Edge Hill School, Princeton, 
N. J.; in 1857 associated with his father in the 
lumber, merchandise and real estate business, be- 
coming sole head of that business three years later; 
in April, 1861, he temporarily left his business in 
his father's hands and recruited Company K of the 
original Bucktail Regiment, and was chosen captain ; 
he was in active service with his company on the 
Peninsula and was captured and imprisoned at 
Richmond ; subsequently he participated in engage- 
ments at South Mountain and Fredericksburg and 
sustained dangerous wounds on both occasions; after 
the war returned home with commission of Lieu- 
tenant Colonel ; elected to the Senate in November, 
1904, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. 
A. E. Patton. 

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LLOYD B. HUFF 




J. NICHOLAS MITCHELL, M. D. 



J. NICHOLAS MITCHELL, M. D., 

Secretary of Committee on Lunacy. — Born 
in Philadelphia April lo, 1847. He studied at the 
Episcopal Academy and the University of Philadel- 
phia. After leaving the university he engaged in 
business for six years and then entered into the study 
of medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1873. In 1876 
he was appointed demonstrator of obstetrics, at his 
alma mater, and gave one of the first courses given 
of that kind at any college in Philadelphia, founded 
on the methods pursued in Vienna. In 1887 he was 
elected professor of obstetrics, which position he held 
until 1895, when increasing private practice caused 
him to resign. Dr. Mitchell has always taken ac- 
tive interest in charitable work and church work, 
and In 1893 was appointed a member of the Board 
of Charities and the medical member of the Com- 
mittee on Lunacy. On the death of Dr. George I. 
McLeod, the secretary of the committee, in De- 
cember, 1905, he was asked by the chairman to act 
as temporary secretary and in January, 1906, was 
elected as secretary. Is a member of the Associa- 
tion of Superintendents and Physicians of the Hos- 
pital for the Insane, and a member of the Ancient 
Order of Masons. 



ROBERT H. FOERDERER, 

Former Member of Congress. — Born in 'Trank- 
enhausen, Germany, May 16, i860, while his pa- 
rents were sojourning in Europe." 

In 1900 he was elected to the Fifty-seventh 
United States Congress as Congressman-at-Large 
from the State of Pennsylvania, and served his full 
term; In 1902 he was re-elected to the Fifty-eighth 
Congress for the Fourth Congressional District of 
the City of Philadelphia but died July 26, 1903, 
before that Congress assembled. 

Robert H. Foerderer served as an apprentice in 
his father's leather business and mastered all its de- 
tail and early in life he entered upon the same busi- 
ness for himself. He revolutionized the manufac- 
ture of goat skins by perfecting the process known as 
"Chrome tannage" and adopted the word "VicI" as 
a trade name for the glazed kid manufactured by 
him and ''VIcI Kid" Is now known all over the 
world. He built and maintained the largest leather 
plant of Its kind in the world, using ten million 
skins annually and employing over three thousand 
people. At the time of his death he was president 
of the Keystone Telephone Company of Philadel- 
phia, and was largely interested In other corpora- 
tions. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, an 
active member of numerous clubs, fraternal orders, 
and other associations and patriotic societies. 




ROBERT H. foerderer 



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WILLIAM A. STONE 

WILLIAM A. STONE, 
Former Governor of Pennsylvania. — Born in 
Delmar township, Pa., April i8, 1846. Educated 
in the district schools and the State Normal School. 
In August, 1863, he ran away to Harrisburg and 
joined the volunteer army, but through the efforts 
of his father he was discharged. He enlisted again 
before he was eighteen years old, in Company A, 
One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and took part in the engagement at Yel- 
low Mile Run, August 18, 1 864, and in the siege 
of Petersburg from August 19 to September 22. 
He was several times promoted and on March 10, 
1865, was advanced to the grade of second lieuten- 
ant. On August 3, 1865, he was mustered out of 
service with his company. After the war Gov- 
ernor Hartranft appointed him Assistant Adju- 
tant General of the Thirteenth Division, National 
Guard, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 
1870, first practicing in Wellsboro and later in Pitts- 
burg. He was district attorney of Tioga county 
and United States District Attorney for the West- 
ern district of Pennsylvania and was a member of 
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and Fif- 
ty-fifth Congresses. In 1898 he was the Republi- 
can candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania and on 
the 8th of the same year was elected. He is 
President of the Commission for the completion of 
the new State Capitol building. 

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CHARLES WARREN STONE, 

Former Member of Congress. — He was born in 
1852, and in his youth worked at the carpenter 
trade with his father. When the latter died the 
young man returned to the homestead of his grand- 
father and with the aid of his two 5'ounger brothers 
carried on the farm. He attended school in the 
winter and completed a course in Lawrence Acad- 
emy and entered Williams College, from which, 
earning his way by teaching and other work, he 
graduated with honor. He accepted a position of 
principal of the Union school at Warren, was 
elected County Superintendent in 1865 and, later in 
the same year, was chosen principal of the Academy 
at Erie. He took up the study of law and was ad- 
mitted to the practice in the courts of Warren 
county in 1866, and entered into partnership with 
Judge Rasselas Brown. He served three j^ears as 
a member of the borough council, nine years as a 
member of the school board ; and the last three 
years as its president. In 1869 he was elected to 
the Lower House of the State Legislature from the 
district composed of the counties of Warren and 
Venango, and was re-elected \vitho\it opposition. In 
1870 he was sent to the State Senate, and served as 
chairman of the General Judiciary Committee. 
When the Republican State Convention of 1878 
convened he was urged by the Republicans of the 
northwest for the office of Lieutenant Governor and 
received the nomination by a vote of 182 to 59. He 




CHARLES WARREN STONE 



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was elected by a majority of 23,250, which exceeded 
the majority received by the other candidates on 
the ticket. In the joint convention, over which he 
presided, resulting in the election of John I. Mitch- 
ell as United States Senator, Mr. Stone was himself 
urged to become a candidate and there was a strong 
undercurrent in his favor. He was one of the three 
commissioners in 1883 who located the United 
States Public Building at Erie, and later was a 
representative of Pennsylvania at Inter-State Extra- 
dition Conference called by the Governors of sev- 
eral States. Subsequently he was a delegate from 
Pennsylvania to the Prison Congress, over which 
Ex-President Hayes presided. In 1887 he was ap- 
pointed by Governor Beaver to be Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, and served until his election to 
Congress from the Twenty-seventh District in 1890, 
as the successor of the late Hon. Lewis F. Watson. 
He served by successive elections in the Fifty-first, 
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and Fifty- 
fifth Congresses and during the last two was chair- 
man of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and 
Measures. As the ranking member of the Republi- 
can minority on that committee he led the opposi- 
tion to the several free silver measures of Mr. Bland 
while he was chairman of the committee. In the 
Republican State Convention of 1898 Mr. Stone 
had 165 votes for the nomination of Governor, 183 
being required to nominate. 



LOUIS ARTHUR WATRES, 

Former Lieutenant Governor. — Born in the 
village of Mt. Vernon, now known as Winton, 
Lackawanna county, Pa., on the 21st day of April, 
1 85 1. His father was Lewis S. Watres, a descen- 
dant of the Otis family of Massachusetts, and one 
of the early settlers in the Lackawanna Valley. 
His mother was a gifted poetess, who wrote many 
beautiful poems, under the nom-de-plume of "Stella 
of Lackawanna." Mount Vernon which owes its 
name more to patriotism than any distinctive quali- 
ties was a settlement of limited opportunities. He 
divided his time between the public school and work 
around the coal breakers. Later he moved with his 
parents to Scranton, where he attended the public 
schools for two years until he was sixteen. This 
ended his school days and he has been working ever 
since. He found employment in the Scranton post 
office where he became assistant postmaster. He 
was next employed as a bookkeeper in the Mer- 
chants' and Mechanics' Bank, of Scranton, and 
became teller of that institution ; was afterwards 
deputy marshal of the Mayor's court of Scranton ; 

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LOUIS ARTHUR WATRES 

then city clerk and subsequently elected cashier 
of the Scranton Savings Bank and Trust Company, 
a position which he filled for five years. He is at 
present and has been for years president of this 
institution which is now called the County Savings 
Bank. 

Mr. Watres studied law with the late Judge 
Johri Handley and in 1879 was admitted to the 
bar of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. He 
was county solicitor to the State Senate by a majority 
of 134 in the district which usually gave a Demo- 
cratic majority of about 2,000. He was re-elected 
in 1886 by an increased majority. In 1890 Mr. 
Watres was elected Lieutenant Governor by a ma- 
jority of 22,365 over his Democratic opponent, while 
the Republican candidate for Governor was defeated 
in the same year by Governor Pattison, the Demo- 
cratic nominee, who had a majority of 17,000. In 

1 89 1, while president of the State Senate, Mr. 
Watres was elected chairman of the Republican 
State Committee, and he succeeded through a 
difficult campaign in harmonizing the conflicting 
elements and electing the Republican candidates, 
General D. M. Griggs as Auditor General and 
Captain John W. Morrison as State Treasurer. 
He was again offered the State chairmanship in ' 

1892, but declined. For nine years, he was a mem- 
ber of the Executive Committee of the Republican 
State Committee. In 1887, he was chairman of 
the Committee of Lackawanna County, and he has 

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always been actively identified with the local organi- 
zation, as a staunch, loyal and devoted Republican. 
He was a member of the Ballot Reform Committee 
which prepared the bills which provided for per- 
sonal registration and uniform primaries. 

At the present time, Mr. Watres is the president 
of the County Savings Bank, The Scranton Trust 
Company, and of the Title Guaranty & Surety 
Company, of Scranton ; and is also connected with 
several large and successful enterprises. 

For over twenty years, he was an active and 
prominent figure in the National Guard of Penn- 
sylvania, having been captain of Company A, Thir- 
teenth Regiment ; colonel of the Eleventh Provi- 
sional Regiment; judge advocate of the Division 
Staff; general inspector of rifle practice on the Staff 
of General Beaver, and for five years colonel of the 
Thirteenth Regiment Infantr\', N. G. P. He was 
president of the State National Guard Association 
for the first two years of its existence and is a mem- 
ber of the Armorj' Board of Pennsylvania. 



WILLIAM SHADRACH SHALLENBERGER, 

Second Assist.-^nt Postmaster General. — Born 
in Mt. Pleasant, Pa., November 24, 1839. He was 
first lieutenant and adjutant One Hundred and 
Fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; chair- 
man Beaver Republican County Committee; mem- 





JAMES k. BARNtTT 

ber Congress 24th district, Pennsylvania, Forty- 
fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congress; 
member Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Commis- 
sion ; Second Assistant Postmaster General since 
April I, 1897. In church relations he is a Baptist 



WILLIAM SHADRACH SH.-\LLENBERGER 



JAMES E. BARNETT, 

Former State Treasurer. — Born in Elder's 
Ridge, Pa., August i, 1856; graduated from Wash- 
ington and Jefferson College in 1882, and is a law- 
yer by profession. Was appointed Deputy Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth by General Fred Reeder, 
and served until October 19, 1897, when he re- 
signed. Enlisted in the National Guard of Penn- 
sylvania in 1884 and after passing through va- 
rious grades was elected lieutenant-colonel of the 
Tenth Regiment in 1897. He volunteered with his 
regiment for the Spanish-American War and served 
in the Philippines, taking part in all the engage- 
ments of his regiment during the Filipino insur- 
rection until the capture of Malolos. He was ap- 
pointed Commander of the District of Cavite, suc- 
ceeding Colonel Hawkins, and served from May 10, 
1899, until the regiment embarked for the LTnited 
States. He is now colonel of the Tenth Regiment. 
Was nominated for State Treasurer by the Republi- 
cans in August, 1899, and was elected in Novem- 
ber, 1899. 

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ARTHUR G. DEWALT, 

State Senator. — Born October ii, 1854, at Bath, 
Pa. ; was graduated from the Keystone State Nor- 
mal School at Kutztown, Pa., in 1870; taught 
school for one term in Lehigh county; in 1871 
entered Lafayette College, and was graduated with 
honor in 1874; was instructor of classics in Oley 
Academy one term ; served one year in the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad office. In 1876, began the study 
of law with Hon. John D. Stiles; admitted to the 
bar of Lehigh county in October, 1877, and has 
since been engaged in the practice of his profession ; 
elected district attorney of Lehigh county in 1880; 
admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 
1883, and to all the courts of Philadelphia in 1888; 
was Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment, National 
Guard of Pennsylvania for nine years ; delegate to 
a number of State Democratic conventions ; elected 
to the Senate in November, 1902, and 1906. 



T. STEWART PEARCE, 

Former Cashier State Treasury. — Born in 
Livermore, Westmoreland county, Pa., March 26, 
1855. He removed to Saltsburg in 1870 where he 
has since lived. Was educated at Memorial Insti- 
tute, Saltsburg, and later entered mercantile busi- 
ness with his father. Was appointed United States 





THOMAS LAWRENCE EYRE 

Gauger for the Western district of Pennsylvania by 
President Harrison in 1889, in 1891 appointed 
chief deputy of the office, in 1893 was appointed 
clerk in the State Treasury, afterwards was ad- 
vanced to assistant cashier and in April, 1899, was 
appointed cashier of the Treasury, which position 
he held until May, 1906. He possessed the confi- 
dence of the men under whom he served and per- 
formed the various duties to which he was assigned 
with marked ability. 



T. STHW.ART PEARCE 



THOMAS LAWRENCE EYRE, 

Former Superintendent of Public Grounds 
AND Buildings. — Born in Birmingham township, 
Delaware county. May 24, 1862. He is president 
of the Eyre-Shoemaker, Inc., general contractors. 
Mr. Eyre has held the following offices : Secretary 
to Congressman Darlington, clerk to President pro 
tempore of Senate of Pennsylvania, Collector Statis- 
tics Department Internal Affairs, Deputy Secretary 
Internal Affairs, chairman Republican County Com- 
mittee, Sergeant-at-Arms Senate of Pennsylvania, 
Deputy Collector of Port at Philadelphia, Superin- 
tendent Public Grounds and Buildings, superintend- 
ent of building Buffalo Exposition, superintendent 
of building Charleston Exposition, superintendent 
of Public Building Commission New Capitol, pres- 

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ident of Conemaugh Coal Company, president Kish- 
kiminitas Coal Company, secretary and treasurer 
Pennsylvania and New River Coal Company, sec- 
retary and treasurer Colonial Coal Company, secre- 
tary and treasurer United States Mining Company, 
secretary and treasurer United States Land and 
Lumber Company, director Farmers' National 
Bank of West Chester, Pa., director White Rock 
Quarries Company, Bellefonte, Pa., owner "Village 
Record," weekly newspaper, West Chester, Pa., and 
trustee West Chester State Normal School. 



OSCAR E. THOMSON, 

State Senator. — Born in Phoenixville, Pa., No- 
vember 14, 1862; educated in the public schools; 
occupation, consulting and contracting engineer; is 
director of the Royersford Trust Company and in- 
terested in many building and manufacturing enter- 
prises; member of the Republican State Central 
Committee 1895 to 1897; delegate to the Republi- 
can State Conventions 1902, 1903 and 1904; 
elected recorder of deeds of Chester county in 1893; 
elected to the Senate November, 1904. 




WILLIAM L. MATHUES, 



ber of the Tenth ward executive committee ; was 
elected to the House of Representatives in 1898 
and 1900; again elected in November, 1904, and 
in 1906. 



JOHN MERTON FLYNN, 

Member of Legislature. — Born at Ridgway, 
Pa., on February 14, 1873; educated in the public 
schools and was graduated from the Ridgway 
High School in 1889; learned the trade of ma- 
chinist, at which he was employed for several years ; 
organized the Ridgway Foundry Company and is 
now manager of same ; elected to the House of 
Representatives in 1902, 1904; re-elected in No- 
vember, 1906. 



EDWARD H. FAHEY, 

Member of Legislature. — Born at Kennett 
Square, Pa., February 28, 1865; educated in the 
public schools ; graduated from Philadelphia Col- 
lege of Pharmacy and engaged in the drug busi- 
ness, being at present the proprietor of two drug 
stores in the city of Philadelphia; has been a mem- 
ber of the Republican city committee and is a mem- 

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WILLIAM L. MATHUES, 

Former State Treasurer. — Born in Middletown 
township, Delaware county. Pa., March 24, 1862, 
and was educated in the public schools of Media; 
at an early age he began the study of law in the 
office of the Hon. John Broomall, Nestor of the Del- 
aware county bar, and was admitted to practice in 
the several courts of the county in November, 1884; 
is now a member of the law firm of Mathues & 
Makiver, Media, Pa. ; served as deputy sheriff of 
Delaware county from January, 1885, to 1887, and 
as deputy prothonotary and clerk of courts from 
January, 1887, to 1892; was elected prothonotary 
and clerk of courts in November, 1891, and served 
for four terms until 1904, in that capacity; he was 
renominated to this office in March, 1903, without 
opposition for a fifth term, but declined June i, 
1903, in order to accept the nomination for State 
Treasurer, to which office he had been nominated by 
the Republican State Convention May 27, 1903; 
was elected State Treasurer November, 1903, by 
244,650 majority; is a member of a number of 
secret societies and political organizations. 

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STATE GOVERNMENT 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 

Governor — Samuel W. Pennypacker, Philadel- 
phia. 

Private Secretary to the Governor — Bromley 
Wharton, Bristol. 

Executive Clerk — Thomas J. Lynch, South Beth- 
lehem. 

Clerk — Miss Elizabeth C. Sheehan, Harrisburg. 

Conunission Clerk — Howard L. Berkley, Harris- 
burg. 

Stenographer — John H. Smith, Lancaster. 

Messenger — James M. Auter, Harrisburg. 

Watchriian — John Czerneski, Antrim. 

SECRETARY OF THE COMMON- 
WEALTH. 

Secretary of the Commoniuealth — Robert Mc- 
Afee, Allegheny. 

Deputy Secretary of the Commoniuealth — Lewis 
E. Beitler, Philadelphia. 

Chief Clerk — George D. Thorn, Gettysburg. 

Corporation Clerk — John F. Whitworth, Kittan- 
ning. 

Assistant Corporation Clerk — Clarence B. Miller, 
Nanticoke. 

Commission Clerk — Gilbert H. Hassler, Carlisle. 

Statute Clerk — Charles E. Fritcher, Williams- 
port. 

Stenographer — Charles H. HoUinger, Harrisburg. 

Clerks — ^William H. Reiff, Norristown ; James 
C. Deininger, Sonestown ; John B. Patrick, Clarion ; 
Edward H. Brady, Pittsburg; Charles R. Willits, 
Reading; W. L Fleming, Bellefonte; Harry F. 
Freeston, Philadelphia ; James K. DeLaney, Easton ; 
J. A. Weible, Warren ; J. A. Lininger, Sharon ; 
J. L. Kendlehart, Gettysburg; J. B. Shallenberger, 
California; Howard W. Fry, Lancaster; William 
H. Pennypacker, Phoenixville; John H. Slentz, 
Gettysburg; Wilmer Johnson, Centre Square. 

Messenger — Edward C. Baxter, Philadelphia. 

Watch7nan — Daniel Dehuff, York. 

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. 

Attorney General — Hampton L. Carson, Phila- 
delphia. 

Deputy Attorney General — Frederic W. Fleitz, 
Scranton. 

Chief Clerk — Guy H. Davies, Towanda. 

Law Clerk — Charles P. Addams, Carlisle. 

Private Secretary — H. M. Hoke, Chambersburg. 

Messenger — Walter S. Taylor, Harrisburg. 

AUDITOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. 

Auditor General — ^William P. Snyder, Spring 
City. 

Deputy Auditor General — Sam Matt. Fridy, 
Mountville. 

Corporation Deputy — J. N. Langham, Indiana. 

Chief Clerk — N. E. Hause, Hawley. 

Domestic Corporation Work — Harry D. Jones, 
Montrose ; Joseph P. Gates, Yellow Creek ; Robert 
M. Rorer, Newtown; George P. Blackburn, West 
Newton ; Richard V. Fox, Harrisburg ; Jacob A. 
Creps, Indiana. 

- Foreign Corporation Work — Horace W. Esh- 
bach, Pennsburg; Barton W. Weaver, Terre Hill; 
I. R. Haldeman, Harleysville; Harry T. Creamer, 
Chester. 

County Work — Christian W. Myers, Lincoln; 
Harry P. Shomo, Hamburg; A. J. Henr\', Allen- 
town ; George J. Faddis, Ercildoun. 

Appropriation Work — J. C. Jeffers, Philadelphia; 
Freeman C. Gerberich, Dauphin ; George O. Evans, 
Allegheny; W. E. Bennet, Honesdale. 

Additional Clerks — Gwin M. Harvey, Hunting- 
don county; J. W. Kilborn, Ralston; Samuel R. 
Ogden, Westtown ; Jefferson Burtner, Butler; 
David H. Matthews, New Castle; Eben Allison, 
Beaver; H. C. McCamant, Huntingdon county; 
H. T. Hallman, Spring City ; E. C. Dewey, Clear- 
field. 

Clerks Classifying Papers — Thomas W. Mont- 
gomery, Huntingdon county; John M. Windle, 
Embreeville. 

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Stenographers — Lloyd D. Lubold, Philadelphia; 
John M. Ward, Philadelphia. 

Messenger — Charles H. Hardenbergh, Avoca. 
Watchman — James M. Uhler, Harrisburg. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 

State Treasurer — William H. Berry, Chester. 

Cashier — Benjamin F. Measey, Ridley Park; 

Assistant Cashier — Robert B. Fulton, Chester. 

Bond Clerk — Charles A. Greer, Altoona. 

Assistant Bond Clerk — E. A. Griffith, Mahanoy 
City. 

Expert Bookkeeper — A. M. Porter, Canonsburg. 

Corporation Clerk — George W. Haggerty, Le- 
moyne. 

Clerks — A. O. Stone, Volant ; George F. Young, 
Gettysburg ; James F. Desmond, Chester. 

Stenographers — Samuel Weil, AUentown ; Miss 
Elizabeth C. Brugger, Fleming. 

Messenger — Patrick McGrann, Chester. 

Night Watchman — Benjamin P. Thompson, 
Montgomery county. 

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. 

Secretary of Interttal Affairs — Isaac B. Brown, 
Corry. 

Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs — Theodore 
B. Klein, Harrisburg. 

Chief Clerk — Thomas Perry, Wheatland. 

Stenographer — Miss Stella L. Foote, Wattsburg. 

Messenger — A. H. Mitchell, Indiana. 

Watchman — Isaiah D. Winters, Harrisburg. 



LAND OFFICE BUREAU. 

Chief Draftsman and Surveyor — J. Sutton Wall, 
Monongahela county. 

Draftsmen — John H. Campbell, Uniontown; 
William E. Lewis, Radnor; W. A. Moore, Cur- 
wensville ; George S. Canning, Waterford. 

Search Clerk — George F. Ross, Harrisburg. 

Assistant Search Clerk — George W. Muse, New 
Castle. 

Bookkeeper — Edward B. Diven, Landisburg. 

Compare Clerks — S. H. Lemon, Hollidaysburg ; 
Charles S. Derland, Boiling Springs. 

Drafting Clerks — John O. Jackson, Franklin ; 
John C. Gates, Ebensburg ; Jacob Lightner, Pitts- 
burg. 

BUREAU OF ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES. 

Clerks — James J. Farnan, Chester ; James C. 
Kirk, Washington. 

DRAFTING CLERKS AND EMPLOYEES UNDER GENERAL 
APPROPRIATION ACT. 

John Paul Jones, Harrisburg ; Ralph C. Benedict, 
West Springfield ; C. T. Ritter, AUentown ; N. A. 
Walker, Ararat ; Theodore H. Meminger Pleasant 
View; J. W. Plannett, Linesville; Miss Katherine 
L. Cilley, Osceola; T. Glen Myer, Corry; Miss 
Rose C. De Wald, Hartley Hall; B. F. Africa, 
Huntingdon; Charles F. Chidsey, Jr., Easton; 
Dorothea Fahrney, Harrisburg; Harry Partington, 
Harrisburg ; Charles L. Yoder, Harrisburg. 

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



BUREAU OF INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. 

Chief of Bureau — Robert C. Bair, York. 

Assistant Chief of Bureau — Charles B. Penman, 
Scranton. 

Collectors of Statistics — James Sweeney, Arnot ; 
C. D. Willis, Delaware county. 

Stenographer — Miss E. M. B. Eisenhart, York. 

BUREAU OF RAILWAYS. 

Superintendent of Bureau — Theodore B. Klein, 
Harrisburg. 

Assistant Superintendent — W. W. Morgaridge, 
Corry. 

Clerks — ^William A. Neale, Brookville ; Thomas 
Wilson, Philadelphia; Robert J. Henderson, Phoe- 
nixville. 

Stenographer — Miss Blanche E. Butler, Harris- 
burg. 

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Superintendent — Nathan C. Schaeffer, Lancaster. 

Deputy Superintendents — Henry Houck, Leban- 
on ; Archibald D. Glenn, Armstrong county. 

Financial Clerk — R. M. McNeal, Harrisburg. 

Recording Clerk— M. F. Cass, Elkland. 

Statistical Clerk — H. H. Fleisher, Auburn. 

Stenographers — Miss Mary Y. McReynolds, Har- 
risburg; Miss Edith L. Breitinger, Harrisburg. 

Messenger — James O. Knauss, AUentown. 

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. 

Adjutant General — Thomas J. Stewart, Norris- 
town. 

Chief Clerk — Benjamin W. Demming, Harris- 
burg. 

Clerks — George C. Kelly, Lewisburg; A. S. 
Vadakin, Philadelphia; Jacob B. Stauffer, Mechan- 
icsburg. 

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Stenographer and Typewriter — David C. Got- 
wals, Yerkes. 

Messenger — Charles E. Ashenfelter, Mechanics- 
burg. 

Messenger at Flag Room — Enos M. Russell, New 
Cumberland. 

Keeper of State Arsenal — William F. Richard- 
son, Mahanoy City. 

Tent Makers — John Gill, Philadelphia ; William 
S. Parkin, Philadelphia. 

Employes at State Arsenal — William L. Hicks, 
Harrisburg; Daniel B. Foote, Erie; Richard W. 
Hayward, Sr., Philadelphia ; George G. Rote, Sal- 
ona; Harry Miller, Harrisburg; Leo. A. Lutt- 
ringer, Ebensburg; Henry S. Fulmer, Norristown; 
Theobald S. Patterson, Berlin. 

NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

Commander-in-Chief — Governor Samuel W. 
Pennypacker, Harrisburg. 

Adjutant General — Brigadier General Thomas J. 
Stewart, Norristown. 

Assistant Adjutant General — Colonel Ezra H. 
Ripple, Scranton. 

Inspector General — Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, 
Chester. 

Judge Advocate General — Colonel Edward Mor- 
rell, Philadelphia. 

Quartermaster General — Colonel Samuel Moody, 
Pittsburg. 

Assistant Quartermaster General — Lieutenant 
Colonel Thomas Potter, Jr., Philadelphia. 

Commissary General of Subsistence — Colonel 
Albert J. Logan, Pittsburg. 

Assistant Commissary General of Subsistence — 
Lieutenant Colonel Horace L. Haldeman, Chickies. 

Surgeon General — Joseph K. Weaver, Norris- 
town. 

General Inspector of Rifle Practice — Colonel 
Frank K. Patterson, Pittsburg. 

Chief of Ordinance — Colonel Sheldon Potter, 
Philadelphia. 

AIDES-DE-CAMP. 



Lieutenant Colonels — Harry C. Trexler, Allen- 
town; James M. Reid, Connellsville; Ned Arden 
Flood, Meadville; Charles C. Pratt, New Milford ; 
Daniel B. Shepp, Philadelphia; Lewis T. Brown, 
Pittsburg; Paul S. Reeves, Phoenixville ; Walter 
T. Bradley, Philadelphia; George Brooke, Jr., 
Birdsboro; Edward R. Chambers, Bellefonte; 
Homer J. Lindsay, Pittsburg; James Archbald, Jr., 
Pottsville; Lewis E. Beitler, Philadelphia. 

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NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. 

Sergeant Major — John C. Shumberger, Harris- 
burg. 

Quartermaster Sergeant — William L. Hicks, 
Harrisburg. 

Commissary Sergeant — T. Magill Patterson, 
Pittsburg. 

Ordnance Sergeant — Phillip P. German, Harris- 
burg. 

Chief Musician — Edgar M. Major, Harrisburg. 

Color Sergeant — Jacob Greene, Philadelphia. 

MAJOR GENERAL COMMANDING. 

J. P. S. Gobin, Lebanon. 

BRIGADIER GENERALS. 

First Brigade — John W. Schall, Philadelphia. 
Second Brigade — John A. Wiley, Franklin. 
Third Brigade — Charles Bowman Dougherty, 
Wilkes-Barre. 

COLONELS. 

First Regiment — Wendell P. Bowman, Philadel- 
phia. 

Second Regiment — Hamilton D. Turner, Phila- 
delphia. 

Third Regiment — William G. Price, Jr., Phila- 
delphia. 

Fourth Regiment — Christopher T. O'Neill, Al- 
lentown. 

Fifth Regiment — Rufus C. Elder, Lewistown. 

Sixth Regiment — James B. Coryell, Philadelphia. 

Eighth Regiment — Joseph B. Hutchison, Harris- 
burg. 

Ninth Regiment — Frank L. McKee, Plymouth. 

Tenth Regiment — James Elder Barnett, Wash- 
ington. 

Twelfth Regiment — Frederick W. Stillwell, 
Scranton. 

Fourteenth Regiment — William E. Thompson, 
McKeesport. 

Sixteenth Regiment — Willis J. Hulings, Oil 
City. 

Eighteenth Regiment — Frank L Rutledge, Pitts- 
burg. 



INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 

Insurance Commissioner — David Martin, 
Holmesburg. 

Deputy Insurance Commissioner — Samuel W. 
McCulloch, Harrisburg. 

Chief Clerk— Wm. H. H. Baker, New Le.xing- 
ton. 




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Clerks — Louis J. McGregor, Hyndman ; W. H. 
Johnston, New Texas; E. O. Pardoe, Camp Hill; 
Alexander S. Cooper, Harrisburg. 

Stenographer — Miss May Jaclcson, Philadelphia. 

Messenger — Andrew J. Miley, Sr., Philadelphia. 

Actuary — R. E. Forster, Philadelphia. 

Chief Examiner — Oscar S. Warne, Norristovvn. 

Assistant Examiner — George N. Twiss, Philadel- 
phia. 

Actuary's Clerks — Henry E. Cornog, Philadel- 
phia; W. C. T. Banerlee, Philadelphia; W. O. 
Kernan, Philadelphia; L. F. Branigan, Philadel- 
phia. 

BANKING DEPARTMENT. 

Commissioner of Banking — John A. Berkey, 
Somerset. 

Deputy Commissioner — John W. Morrison, 
Pittsburg. 

Clerks — William Dawson, Scranton ; I. K. Reif- 
snyder, Philadelphia; John V. Miller, Lewisburg; 
John W. Crider, Conneautville. 

Stenographer — Miss C. Maude Jones, Philadel- 
phia. 

Messenger — Edward L. Jenkins, Lansford. 

Examiners — W. H. Smith, Philadelphia; James 
L. White, Wellsboro; Joseph R. Harrah, Beaver; 
Joseph S. Riley, Philadelphia; William B. Schaef- 
fer, Bethlehem; Albert L. Taber, Philadel- 
phia; Peter G. Cameron, Wellsboro; E. R. Pen- 
rose, Quakertown; Robert Ostermaier, Pittsburg; 
Albert Wagner, Elkhorn ; John C. McClain, Lan- 
caster; H. A. Groman, Bethlehem; Willits C. 
Binns, Donora. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

Secretary of Agriculture — N. B. Critchfield, 
Stoystown. 

Deputy Secretary and Director of Farmer's Insti- 
tutes — A. L. Martin, Enon Valley. 

Chief Clerk— M. D. Lichliter, Allegheny. 

Stenographer — E. C. First, Harrisburg. 

Messenger — George F. Barnes, Rossville. 



Dairy and Food Commissioner — B. H. Warren, 
West Chester. 

Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner — Oliver 
D. Schock, Hamburg. 

Clerk— Miss May V. Rhone, Centre Hall. 

Messenger — William R. Swartz, Duncannon. 

Economic Zoologist — H. A. Surface, State Col- 
lege. 



Assistant Economic Zoologist — Norman G. Mil- 
ler, Marion. 

Nursery Inspector — Enos B. Engle, Waynesboro. 

Clerk— AMrtd F. Satterthwait, Chadd's Ford. 

Stenographer — Miss Kathryn P. First, Harris- 
burg. 

Messenger — L. R. White, Jermyn. 

State Veterinarian — Leonard Pearson, Philadel- 
phia. 

DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY. 

Connnissioner of Forestry — Robert S. Conklin, 
Columbia. 

Deputy Commissioner of Forestry — Irvin C. Wil- 
liams, Royersford. 

Clerks — A. Elwyn Strode, West Chester ; George 
W. Howard, Chester. 

DEPARTMENT OF FACTORY INSPEC- 
TION. 

Factory Inspector — John C. Delaney, Harris- 
burg. 

Chief Clerk— C. V. Hartzell, Harrisburg. 

Statistician — John L. Butler, Harrisburg. 

Assistant Clerk — Miss Mary Wagner, Harris- 
burg. 

Messenger and Typewriter — J. Pursell Lilly, 
Marysville. 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 

Commissioner of Health — Samuel G. Dixon, 
M. D., Ardmore. 

Assistant to Commissioner — Benjamin Lee, M. 
D., Harrisburg. 

Chief Medical Inspector — Fred. C. Johnson, 
M. D., Bradford. 

Secretary to Commissioner — ^Wilbur Morse, Har- 
risburg. 

Bookkeeper — E. I. Simpson, Philadelphia. 

Stenographers — Miss Ivy E. Huber, Harrisburg; 
Miss Fannie A. Houseknecht, Muncy; Miss Min- 
nie A. Light, Philadelphia. 

Messenger — Edward F. Eisely, Harrisburg. 

SANITARY ENGINEERING DIVISION. 

Chief Engineer — F. Herbert Snow, Harrisburg. 
Assistant Engineers — F. W. Witherell, Pitts- 
burg; C. Howe Cummings, Lower Gwynedd. 
Draftsman — J. L. Gibbs, Harrisburg. 



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MINE INSPECTORS^ OCT. 4TH^ igo6. 

Top row from left to right: A. B. Lamb, J. A. O'Donnell, Henry Louttit, C. P. Mc- 
Ciregor, J. T. Evans, Hugh AIcDonald, Frank Hall, Alexander Montieth, D. T. Williams, 
JosL°ph'vVilliams, H. D. Johnson, J. J. Walsh, P. C. Fenton. 

Second row: Nicholas Evans, T. D. Wilhams, Roger Hampson, Joseph Knapper, Elias 
Phillips, J. I. Pratt, T. K. Adams, C. B. Rose, I. G. Roby, C. J. Price, Alexander McCanch, 
Jr., J. F. Bell, F. W. Cunningham, B. I. Evans. 

Lower row: David Young, D. J. Roderick, John Curran, P. J. Moore, P. M. Boyle, 
James E. Roderick, James Martin, M. J. Brennan, Martin McLaughlin, L. M. Evans, D. T. 
Davis. 



Stenographers — Miss M. Irene Cuenot, Harris- 
burg; Miss M. Lou Eckels, Carlisle; Miss Jane 
Gilbert, Harrisburg. 

ANTITOXIN DIVISION. 

Clerks — Henry W. Peirson, Philadelphia; Miss 
Mabel F. Potts, Harrisburg. 

Stenographer — Miss Agnes Bean, Delphi. 

MORBIDITY STATISTICS DIVISION. 

Clerks — Miss Mary Harriet Morley, Marysville ; 
Elmer W. Ehler, Harrisburg; Miss Katherine 
Irene McCalley, Harrisburg; Miss Martha E. Mc- 
Granagan, Harrisburg. 

BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS. 

State Registrar — Wilmer R. Batt, Harrisburg. 

Clerks — Herbert B. Nelson, Philadelphia; Miss 
Mary Lenore Embick, Boiling Springs. 

Stenographers — Miss Erma K. Longenecker, 
Middletovvn; Miss Lila H. Conolly, Carlisle; 
Miss Lillian H. Shaffer, Williamsport ; Miss Anna 
Magdaburg, Ashland. 

DEPARTMENT OF MINES. 

Chief of the Department of Mines — James E. 
Roderick, Hazleton. 

Deputy Chief of the Department of Mine^ — 
Frank Hall, Huntingdon county. 

Chief Clerk— Orson V. Smith, Mansfield. 

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Clerks — Joseph J. Radziewicz, Shenandoah ; 
James E. Roderic, Jr., Hazleton ; J. H. Venn, 
Shamokin. 

Stenographer — Miss Minnie H. Irwin, Harris- 
burg. 

Messenger — Robert J. Nelson, Reading. 

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. 

State Higlnvay Commissioner — Joseph W. Hun- 
ter, Jenkintown. 

Assistant State Highway Commissioner — Roy D. 
Beman, Meadville. 

Chief Clerk — John S. Neal, Chester. 

Bookkeeper — Daniel M. Leedom, Ambler. 

Civil Engineers — G. W. Ensign, Meadville; 
Enos D. Garrett, Downingtown ; Charles F. Ham- 
ilton, Franklin ; Charles W. Bosler, HoUidays- 
burg; F. F. Hallam, McKeesport ; George H. 
Biles, Philadelphia. 

Draftsman — Edward S. Frey, York. 

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC GROUNDS 
AND BUILDINGS. 

Superintendent — James M. Shumaker, Johns- 
town. 

Assistant Superintendent and Bookkeeper — ■ 
George C. Keim, Johnstown. 

Storekeeper — John Robinson, Rittenhouse. 

Stenographer — Edward E. Jauss, Harrisburg. 

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Watchmen — Samuel M. Simmers, Harrisburg; 
Daniel F. Graham, Pottstovvn. 

Sergeant of Police — Samuel A. Bookman, York. 

Policemen — Edwin M. Householder, Harris- 
burg; Ferdinand F. Rohm, Patterson; Jacob B. 
Dock, Wormleysburg; T. C. Reynolds, Reynolds- 
ville; John J. Casey, Philadelphia; John D. Cam- 
eron, Punxsutawney. 

Mechanic — S. Frank Westen, Harrisburg. 

Gardener — John Loban, Harrisburg. 

Assistant Gardener — Morris H. Garvin, Sharon 
Hill. 

Carpenter — Ephraim T. Oswald, Oxford. 

Elevatormen — Joseph F. Ripley, Lambs Creek; 
Job Hart, Wellsboro. 

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING 
AND BINDING. 

Superintendent — A. Nevin Pomeroy, Chambers- 
burg. 

Chief Clerk — Thomas J. Bell, Harrisburg. 
Clerk — J. W. Harbaugh, Chambersburg. 
Messenger — Roscoe C. Astvvood, Scranton. 

STATE LIBRARY. 

Board of Trustees — Governor Samuel W. Pen- 
nypacker. Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert 
McAfee, Attorney General Hampton L. Carson. 

State Librarian — Thomas Lynch Montgomery, 
Philadelphia. 

First Assistant — Norman D. Gray, West Ches- 
ter. 

Second Assistant — A. Coleman Sheetz, Harris- 
burg. 

Cataloguer — J. Burns White, Fayetteville. 

Clerks — Mrs. R. C. Espy, Harrisburg; Charles 
H. Forrest, Harrisburg. 

Messenger — Joseph Revie, Blossburg. 

Stenographer — Miss Martha G. Sober, Harris- 
burg. 

Clerk and Watchman — Theodore Burchfield, Al- 
toona. 

DIVISION OF PUBLIC RECORDS. 
Advisory Commission — John W. Jordan, Phila- 



delphia; Julius F. Sachse, Philadelphia; Frank R. 
Diffenderfer, Lancaster; Ethan Allen Weaver, 
Philadelphia; Boyd Crumrine, Washington. 

Custodian of the Public Records — Luther R. 
Kelker, Harrisburg. 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE. 

Superintendent of State Police — J. C. Grooome, 
Philadelphia. 

Deputy Superintendent of State Police — J. 
Cheston Morris, Jr., Penlyn. 

Clerk and Bookkeeper — John H. Clark, Lang- 
borne. 

Stenographer — Allen C. Frazier, Philadelphia. 

DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES. 

FISHERIES COMMISSION. 

Commissioner of Fisheries — ^William E. Meehan, 
Philadelphia. 

Clerk — Barton D. Evans, West Chester. 
Stenographer — Miss M. H. Bothwell, Goldsboro. 

COMMISSION OF SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' 
SCHOOLS. 

Chief Clerk — William J. George, Harrisburg. 

Assistant Clerk — J. Henry Holcomb, Philadel- 
phia. 

Stenographer — Harold R. Jauss, Harrisburg. 

Male Inspector — S. G. Willauer, West Chester. 

Female Ins,pector — Laura P. Swentzel, Phila- 
delphia. 



WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION. 

Secretary — Thomas J. Lynch, South Bethlehem. 
Engineer — Farley Gannett, Harrisburg. 
Clerk and Stenographer — William T. Sheridan, 
Philadelphia. 

GAME COMMISSION. 

Secretary and Chief Game Protector — Joseph 
Kalbfus, Harrisburg. 



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EDWIN S. STUART 



Governor-Elect. — Born in Philadelphia on De- 
cember 28, 1853, of Scotch-Irish parentage. At- 
tended the Southwest grammar school until thir- 
teen years old and then went to work for W. A. 
Leary, proprietor of Leary's Old Book Store, and 
he has never worked anywhere else. 

He was afterward promoted to the position of 
salesman and then became buyer for the house — 
was general manager, and in 1876, when only 
twenty-two years of age and nine years after start- 
ing as errand boy, he bought out the business and 
became the proprietor. 

He conducted the business at the old stand, Fifth 
and Walnut, until 1877, when he moved to Ninth, 
between Market and Chestnut, his present stand. 

He first entered politics in the Garfield cam- 
paign in 1880; joined the Young Republicans of 
Philadelphia; was appointed quartermaster, his 
duties being those of treasurer; was elected presi- 
dent in 1882 and re-elected every 3'ear until 189 1. 

Mr. Stuart was elected the first president of the 



State League of Republican Clubs in 1884 and re- 
elected in 1885-1886. 

In 1886 he went to select council from the 
Twenty-sixth ward and three years later was sent 
back to councils by a unanimous vote. 

In 1 89 1 he was unanimously nominated by the 
Republicans for Mayor of Philadelphia, and was 
elected by the largest majority ever given to a 
Mayor up to that time. 

He retired from the Mayor's office in 1895 after 
four years' successful administration, and in i8g6 
was appointed a member of the Board of City 
Trusts, afterward succeeding William L. Elkin as 
chairman of the finance committee. 

Twice Mr. Stuart was a member of the Electoral 
College, casting a vote for James G. Blaine and 
for William McKinley on his second term. He 
was president of the Electoral College that elected 
McKinley and Roosevelt. 

He is president of the Union League and a mem- 
ber of the Young Republicans of Philadelphia. 



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ROBERT S. MURPHY. 

June 6, 1906, the Republican Convention met in 
Harrisburg and Mr. Stuart received the unanimous 
nomination for Governor and on November 6, 
1906, after a spirited campaign, he was elected 
Governor by a large majority, decisively defeating 
the Democratic-Lincolnite-Fusion candidate, Lewis 
Emery, Jr. 



publican Convention at Philadelphia, where he 
supported McKinley and Roosevelt. 

In 1902 he represented his county in the State 
Republican Convention, and placed in nomination 
for Governor the Hon. John P. Elkin, now a Jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court. 

At the Republican State Convention, in Harris- 
burg, June 6, 1906, Mr. Murphy was nominated 
for Lieutenant-Governor by acclamation, and he 
was elected November 6, 1906, by a large majority. 



ROBERT K. YOUNG, 

Auditor General-Elect. — Born June 14, 1861, 
at Wellsboro, Pa. ; educated in the public schools 
of Wellsboro and Concord, N. H. ; studied law 
with Major Geo. W. Merrick, of Wellsboro, and 
was admitted to the bar in August, 1885. 

He traveled in Europe in 1885- 1886 and formed 
a law partnership with Major Merrick in 1886, 
and has been in continuous practice at Wellsboro. 

He was elected a justice of the peace in 1889; 
was a delegate to the Republican State Convention 
in 1895 and was a member of the State Legislature 
in 1 897-1899 and delegate to the Republican Na- 
tional Convention which nominated Roosevelt in 
1902. 

Mr. Young is president of the Wellsboro Electric 
Company ; director of the Tioga County Savings 



ROBERT S. MURPHY, 

Lieutenant-Governor-Elect. — Born in Louis- 
ville, N. Y., October 18, 1861, the son of Francis 
Murphy, the great temperance advocate ; attended 
school in Portland, Me., Potts Academy, Fryburg, 
Me., Freeport, Sterling and Abingdon, 111., and 
completed his education at Pennington College, 
Pennington, N. J. 

In 1880 located at Johnstown, Pa., and became 
a student-at-law in the office of Hon. W. Horace 
Rose ; admitted to practice in the courts of Cam- 
bria county in 1883 and afterward to the Supreme, 
Superior and Federal courts. 

He was elected district attorney of Cambria 
county in 1892 and re-elected in 1895. He was 
the first Republican to hold this oflfice, the county 
being Democratic by a pronounced majority. 

Mr. Murphy has frequently represented his party 
in State conventions and in 1 900 was a delegate 
from the Twentieth district to the National Re- 

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ROBERT K. YOUNG. 




HENRY HOUCK 

and Trust Company ; secretary of the Tioga 
County Bar Association ; librarian of the Tioga 
County Historical Society and was counsel for the 
New State Capitol Building Commission. 

He was nominated for Auditor General by the 
Republicans on June 6, 1906 and elected Novem- 
ber 6, 1906. 



HENRY HOUCK, 



Secretary of Internal Affairs, Elect. — 
Born in Palmyra, Lebanon Co., Penn., March 
6, 1836, and educated in public and private schools. 
Studied Latin and Greek for two years. The 
honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon 
him by Franklin and Marshall College. In 1859 
he was appointed superintendent of Lebanon county, 
and was elected to the same office in i860, 1863, 
1866. Later Dr. J. P. Wickersham tendered him 
an important position in the State School Depart- 
ment of Public Instruction, which position he has 
filled up to this time. Mr. Houck was twice chair- 
man of the executive committee of the State Teach- 
ers' Association and in 1872 presided at its annual 
meeting in Philadelphia, lectured in every town and 
city in Pennsylvania, and in addition to this has 
conducted institutes in many States. He is not only 
in demand for addresses on educational topics in 
Pennsylvania, but calls have come to him from dif- 

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ferent States of the Union asking him to give the 
benefit of his extensive experience as a promoter of 
practical education. Two years ago he made a tour 
of Porto Rico for the purpose of inquiring into the 
educational features of the United States possession. 

This is the thirty-sixth year he has filled the posi- 
tion of Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion of Pennsylvania. As a testimonial of their ap- 
preciation of his substantial work in promoting the 
interests of education in Pennsylvania the school 
teachers of the State, in 1904, raised a fund to send 
Mr. Houck to the Holy Land, which he covered in 
a tour of several months. 

He was nominated by the Republicans for Secre- 
tary of Internal Affairs in June, 1906, and elected 
in November, 1906. 



THE HENRY-BONNARD 
COMPANY. 



BRONZE 



Bronze Work. — The Henry-Bonnard Bronze 
Company, Art Founders, is the greatest bronze com- 
pany in the United States, and there are very few 
that can compare with it anywhere. It is owned by 
U. S. Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, was estab- 
lished in 1 87 1, and has a magnificent new and com- 
plete plant at Washington and Hartford avenues, 
Mt. Vernon, New York, removing from New York 
city last May. This company has made some of the 
finest bronzes in the world, but its crowning feat 
was the fashioning and casting of the three bronze 
doors on the new Capitol, an achievement that is 
ranked amongst the great art castings of the world. 
It has made the splendidly beautiful bronze work 
for the mansion of Senator William A. Clark, in 
New York, and cast the Ward statue of Washing- 
ton in front of the sub-treasury. New York. The 
Astor Memorial bronze portals on Trinity church 
are the work of this firm, requiring over eight tons 
of solid bronze. In 1900 some of its work shown 
at the Paris exposition included a colossal figure of 
"Pan," by George Gray Barnard; the heroic 
equestrian figure of Washington, and the iife-size 
portrait statue of Maude Adams, cast from 812 
pounds of pure gold, the value of which was $110,- 
000. The bronze work executed by the firm for 
the new Capitol is the finest in the country, and 
was done under the direction of the best bronze ex- 
pert in the country, Mr. Eugene F. Aucaigne. 

They have cast all the railings, standards and 
chandeliers, and also all the bronze work for the 
post office and treasury department of the Capitol, 
also the statue of Miss Penn surmounting the dome. 
See Illustrations on pages 10, 12, 34, and 50. 

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inence by the adoption of his plans for the build- 
ing of the new State Capitol, at Harrisburg, after 
a spirited contest in which many of the most prom- 
inent architects in the State had taken part. 



JOSEPH M. HUSTON 

JOSEPH M. HUSTON, 

Architect of the New State Capitol. — • 
Born in the Eighteenth ward of Philadelphia, and 
attended school until he was thirteen; soon after 
he learned the trade of sign painting, and then as a 
natural selection he turned to the study of archi- 
tecture. Ten years followed in the offices of archi- 
tects, during which time he distinguished himself 
as a draughtsman. In 1888 he entered Princeton 
University, and the following year, during the sum- 
mer months, he went through Europe on a sketching 
tour. At Princeton he won three gold medals for 
oratory. In 1892 he graduated as a Bachelor, and 
three years later became a Master of Art. Then 
he became the architect again. He rendered valu- 
able assistance in the erection of Broad Street Sta- 
tion, and in the great Reading Terminal. He de- 
signed the Witherspoon building, one of the best 
appointed and most complete of its kind in the 
country, and the famous Court of Honor through 
which President McKinley passed at the time of his 
visit after the Spanish War, during the memorial 
Peace Jubilee. This feat alone revolutionized the 
architecture of pageantry, and gave birth to many 
other decorative sculptors elsewhere, of which the 
Dewey Arch in New York is an example. He de- 
signed the Philadelphia Building at the Charlestown 
Exposition. The greatest stepping stone in his life 
occurred when he was brought into further prom- 

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WOODBURY GRANITE COMPANY. 

Granite Work. — The Woodbury Granite Com- 
pany, of Hardwick, Vt., which furnished the granite 
for the exterior of the new Capitol, the handsom- 
est granite in any public building in the United 
States, has the largest and most complete granite 
manufacturing plant in the country, and it is well 
known and admitted that its quarry at Woodbury is 
the largest and best of any. It owns and operates in 
connection with the granite plant an independent 
railroad with fifteen miles of tracks, which operates 
between the quarries at Woodbury, Vt., and the cut- 
ting plant at Hardwick, Vt. It has its own special 
mountain climbing engines, freight cars, etc., and the 
most up-to-date derrick machinery, including air 
for drill as well as for operating the large hoist- 
ing machines. The company also owns a plant and 
quarry at Bethel, Vt., where it quarries and manu- 
factures Hardwick white granite, admittedly the 
whitest granite known, and selected by the architects 
of the mammoth union station at Washington, D. 
C, as the best that could be procured anywhere. 

The contract for the entire granite work of the 
new Capitol was to be cut complete in twenty-four 
months, but as a matter of fact it was cut and de- 
livered in twenty-two months, the quickest time 
ever made on a contract of anything like this size 
in granite, a contract that is believed up to this time 
to be the largest ever given. There were many dif- 
ficult points to overcome besides that of quick de- 
livery, among these the cutting and quarrying of 
thirty-two monoliths twenty-nine feet two inches 
long, and three feet ten inches in diameter, but all 
were delivered within contract time, a most credit- 
able piece of work. These were quarried and cut 
complete in less than ten months, record time, and 
all with special machinery made for the purpose. 
The job required practically four hundred thou- 
sand feet of granite, and necessitated an output of 
a thousand feet a day. A commission that recently 
visited the Capitol with a view to letting a big con- 
tract reported that it was the most satisfactory piece 
of granite work they had inspected. During the 
time the company was working on the contract for 
the new Capitol it employed directly and indirectly 
on that one job at the various plants from 750 to 
850 men, all skilled in their particular callings. 
See Illustrations on pages 2 and 10. 

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STANFORD B. LEWIS 

STANFORD B. LEWIS, 

Architect. — Born near Charlottesville, Va., in 
1869. Was educated in private, public and tech- 
nical schools of that State. Went north in 1887 
and secured a position with Furness, Evans and 
Company, the well-known firm of architects of Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. In 1895 he became associated with 
Joseph M. Huston in the practice of architecture, 
supervising the erection of many large buildings in 
Philadelphia and has devoted his entire time to the 
erection of the Capitol building during the past 
five years. 



KELLER-PIKE COMPANY. 

Power Plant and Electrical Equipment. — The 
building is equipped with a thoroughly up-to-date 
plant for electric lighting and power and all of the 
electrical devices such as telephones, messenger calls, 
signal systems, etc., which have become a necessity 
in a modern executive building of this kind. All of 
this work was installed by the Keller-Pike Company, 
of Philadelphia. 

The Generating Plant consists of four units of 
150 kilowatts each. The engines in these units 
are of the high speed automatic cut off type, built 
by the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Com- 
pany and are of the Fleming Side Crank type with 



cylinders 19 inches in diameter and 18 inch stroke. 
Each engine is directly connected to a multi-polar 
generator of the direct current type of a capacity of 
150 kilowatts at 230 volts. These four generators, 
which were built by the C. & C. Electric Company, 
of Garwood, N. J., as well as the engines to which 
they are coupled are shown on page 83. These 
machines are of the newest type and have given ex- 
cellent service since they were put in operation a 
little over a year ago. During that time, owing 
to the building which was in progress, and the large 
amount of temporary wiring which was required, 
the conditions have often been most severe, but there 
has never been an interruption in the service since 
the plant was started. 

The white marble Switch Board, shown on page 
84 is of unique design. Instead of the usual com- 
plement of straight panels, the center one is made in 
the form of a keystone to represent the State of 
Pennsylvania. On the Keystone panel are mounted 
the pressure gauges for both steam and electricity 
The next panel to the left marked "Street" contains 
a volt meter and switch and two double throw 
switches, through which the entire current passes, 
the upper one being for power and the lower for 
lighting. These switches are so constructed that 
the entire load or either the light or the power load 
may be thrown either on the generating plant or 
on the street connection to the Harrisburg Central 
Station. As the switches are shown in the picture 
both the light and power load are on the generators. 
The next four panels, marked "i," "2," "3," "4," 
are for the four generators, which are connected to 
them by means of lead encased cables of 1,200,000 
circular mils diameter, carried in concrete ducts in 
the floor of the engine room. Each of these four 
panels contains an illuminated dial ammeter of the 
Weston type, three pole dynamo switch, field regu- 
lator and double pole circuit breaker of the I. T. E. 
type. The tv\'o blank panels on the extreme left 
are intended as generator panels for two additional 
units to be installed in connection with the exterior 
illumination at some future time. The first panel 
to the right of the keystone contains all of the 
switches for the power circuits, i. e., for the ventil- 
ating motors in the various parts of the building. 
It contains a wattmeter of the Thompson recording 
type for measuring the power consumed on these 
circuits. The next panel contains the switches for 
the night circuits and a recording wattmeter to 
measure the total current consumed on the lighting 
circuits. The four panels marked "Interior" con- 
tain the switches feeding the various centers of dis- 
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GEORGE F. PAYNE 

right one blank panel is left for the switches to con- 
trol the outside lighting circuits. 

The distribution of current throughout the build- 
ing is on the two wire system at 220 Volts. There 
are in all 61 centers or panel boards in the build- 
ing from which the branch circuits are carried to 
the lights. .On page 87 is shown one of these 
panel boards which are constructed of white marble 
in sheet iron boxes. The usual construction with 
marble linings forming a gutter covered by a hard 
wood trim is adhered to. The doors are made with 
heavy plate glass panels. All wires are rubber in- 
sulated and carried in loricated iron conduits. 

It was the original intention to install in the 
building three independent systems of telephones. 
As the needs of the various departments became bet- 
ter known, however, it was evident that these inde- 
pendent systems of telephones would not cover the 
service desired, and, after considering other methods 
of telephone communication, it was finally decided to 
omit all of these systems and to substitute therefor 
a long distance connection in every room which re- 
quired telephone service of any kind. The system 
was installed in iron conduit for a total of 327 
rooms and later it was duplicated so that each room 
has not only the Bell telephone services but also that 
of the independent companies, known in that terri- 
tory as the United Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
pany. Each company will install a switch board of 
ample capacity, in a room which has been assigned 

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for that purpose, known as the Electrical Bureau, 
on the first floor of the building. 

Messenger calls for both the Western Union and 
Postal Telegraph Company have been installed in 
every important room in the building, there being 
278 call boxes for each company throughout the 
building. The wiring for this is also carried in 
iron conduit. 

The signal system comprises push buttons on each 
desk in both the Senate and House indicating on 
annunciators located in the ante rooms. In addi- 
tion to this there is a system of call bells in all of 
the committee rooms so arranged that they may be 
operated simultaneously by the clerks of the Senate 
and House when sessions are called to order. 



GEORGE F. PAYNE, 

Builder of the State Capitol. — He is the 
senior member of the firm of George F. Payne and 
Company, of Philadelphia. Soon after he com- 
pleted his apprenticeship as a carpenter he entered 
business for himself. 

In 1 88 1 the present firm was formed, Chas. G. 
Wetter, also of Philadelphia, becoming associated 
with Mr. Payne. In his younger days Mr. Payne 
was an enthusiastic guardsman and went through 
the Pittsburgh riots of 1877, as a member of the 
famous Washington Grays, a well known Phila- 
delphia artillery corps. 

The following examples of the firm's work will 
give a comprehensive idea of the training and expe- 
rience which found its culmination in the great 
Capitol Building in this city. 

Bullitt building 133-37 South Fourth street, 
Philadelphia. 

Crozer building, 1420 Chestnut street, Philadel- 
phia. 

United Gas Improvement Company building. 
Broad and Arch streets, Philadelphia. 

Professional building, 1831-33 Chestnut street, 
Philadelphia. 

Perry building. Sixteenth and Chestnut streets, 
Philadelphia. 

Loraine Hotel, Broad and Fairmont avenue, 
Philadelphia. 

Academy of Natural Sciences, Nineteenth and 
Race streets, Philadelphia. 

Widener Memorial Home, York Road above Lo- 
gan, Philadelphia. 

Wistar Institute, Thirty-sixth and Spruce streets, 
Philadelphia. 

St. Joseph's Academ}', Chestnut Hill, Philadel- 
phia. 

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Carnegie Library, State College, Pennsylvania. 

Auditorium building. State College, Pennsylva- 
nia. 

Dormitory building. State College, Pennsylvania. 

Agricultural building, State College, Pennsylva- 
nia. 

House of Refuge buildings, Glen Mills, Penn. 

P. A. B. Widener residence, Ashburne, Penn. 

Wm. L. Elkins residence, Ashbourne, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

John Gribbel residence, Wyncote, Pennsylvania. 

Wm. C. Bullitt residence, Devon, Pennsylvania. 

George A. Huhn residence. Sixteenth and Wal- 
nut streets, Philadelphia. 

E. J. Berwind residence, Newport, Rhode Island. 

W. Storrs Wells residence, Newport, Rhode 
Island. 

Edward C. Knight residence, Newport, Rhode 
Island. 

Martin Maloney residence, Spring Lake, New 
Jersey. 

Maloney Memorial Chapel, Spring Lake, New 
Jersey. 



HARRISBURG FOUNDRY AND MACHINE 
WORKS. 

Engines. — Among the most interesting and im- 
portant features of the Capitol building is the elec- 
tric light plant. 

This consists of four engines designed to drive 
electric generators, whose armatures are directly 
attached to the engine shafts. The engines are of 
the horizontal automatic, self-lubrication, piston 
valve type, operating at 225 revolutions per minute, 
and each rated at 225 nominal indicated horsepower. 

The engines were built by the Harrisburg 
Foundry and Machine Works, of Harrisburg, Pa. 

In the selection of engines it was necessary to 
consider carefully those qualities that would secure 
compactness, quiet operation, close regulation and 
efficient service. Reference to illustration of engine 
room on page 83 will make evident how success- 
fully one of these requirements has been fulfilled, 
notably, compactness, since approximately 1,000 
horsepower of engines producing electric light and 
power have been installed within a space of less 
than forty feet square and, as shown, without 
crowding. 

The most discriminating observer would not 
withhold commendation of those responsible for the 
design and installation of this machinery, which 
certainly meets all the requirements of the exacting 
service of the combined power and lighting load. 




CHARLES G. WETTER, 

Member of Firm of Geo. F. Payne and Com- 
pany. — Was born in the Eighteenth ward of Phil- 
adelphia, March 15, 1853, and attended the public 
schools of that city. He is well and favorably 
known in the building trade and has been a partner 
of Mr. Payne for the past twenty-five years. The 
firm is known as George F. Payne and Company, 
carpenters and builders, with offices at No. 401-9 
South Juniper street, Philadelphia. The more 
prominent buildings constructed by this firm — ■ 
notably the new State Capitol building at Harris- 
burg — are monuments of their skill and enterprise. 



PENN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. 

Steel Fixtures and Furnishings. — The Penn Con- 
struction Company of Marietta, Pa., the selling 
agents for the Art Metal Construction Company, of 
Jamestown, N. Y., furnished and erected the me- 
tallic furniture in all of the offices of the new State 
Capitol. 

This is the largest factory in the world engaged 
exclusively in this business, and no other could pro- 
duce furniture of this character. 

They design and contract for the complete equip- 
ment of public buildings, banks, libraries, etc. 
See Illustrations on pages 35 and 89. 



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THE ROBERT C. FISHER COMPANY. 

Interior Marble Work. — The grand stairway, 
marble columns, and all the beautiful marble work 
in the House of Representatives and Senate and 
throughout the building was furnished by The 
Robert C. Fisher Company of New York city. 
They were established in 1830 and are incorporated 
with Edward B. Tompkins as president and Rob- 
ert C. Fisher as secretary and treasurer. 

They are importers and workers in foreign and 
domestic marbles, Venetian and Roman mosaics, 
and are lessees of the Royal Irish Green Marble 
Quarries, Connemara, Ireland, and are the sole 
American representatives of "Marmor, Limited," 
Marble Quarries of Penteli, Paros, Mani, Skyros, 
Argos, Tinos, Karystos, etc., in Greece. 

See Illustrations pages 17, 18, 19, and 21. 



D. A. MacGREGOR & BRO. 

Interior Decorating, Painting and Glass. — All 
the interior decorating, painting and glass was fur- 
nished by the old established firm of D. A. Mac- 
Gregor & Bro., of Philadelphia. 



CHAS. J. FIELD'S SONS. 

Hardiuare. — The hardware for the new State 
Capitol building was furnished by the firm of Chas. 
J. Field's Sons, Philadelphia, by contract with Geo. 
F. Payne & Co., the builders. The hardware was 
manufactured by Sargent & Co., of New Haven, 
Conn., one of the foremost manufacturers of archi- 
tectural hardware in the United States. This hard- 
ware was specially made for this building from 
special designs and drawings of the architect, Mr. 
Jos. M. Huston. The various schools of architec- 
ture, in the special portions of the building, were 
classically followed out in the many special designs 
of the architect. 

The firm of Chas. J. Field's Sons, successors to 
their father, Chas. J. Field, is one of the oldest 
concerns in the State, established in 1852. 

Their thorough knowledge and long experience 
in the hardware business was a great assistance to 
the architect in completing this very necessary part 
of the building. 

The Messrs. Field are not only masters of ar- 
chitectural hardware, but have a large trade in 
railroad, United States Government, municipal and 
contractors' supplies of all kinds. 

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SAMUEL B. RAMBO, 

Superintendent of Construction for George 
F. Payne & Co. — Born in Elkton, Maryland. Oc- 
tober 21, 1863; served an apprenticeship at the 
carpenter trade at Wilmington, Delaware ; moved 
to Philadelphia and entered the employ of George 
F. Payne and Company, November, 1884. 



MORSE, WILLIAMS & COMPANY. 

Elevator Installation. — In the equipment of ele- 
vator service for the State Capitol, evidence of care- 
ful selection is manifest in the completeness of de- 
tail for each elevator, in the construction of the 
requisite machinery for their operation, and in which 
auxiliary appurtenances for safe and rapid trans- 
portation of passengers to and from the different 
floors have also been included. The most conspicu- 
ous feature in the installation is probably the hand- 
some design and artistic workmanship displayed in 
the elevator cars, and which is certainly in harmony 
with the quiet dignity characteristic of this build- 
ing. No effort seems to have been spared, either by 
the architects, engineers or manufacturers to pro- 
vide reliable elevator service, and an installation 
practically perfect in all of its parts. 

The elevators, of which there are eight, conven- 
iently distributed in the building, are operated under 

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the hydro-pneumatic system. The pumping plant 
comprises steam and air pumps, air receiving tanks, 
pressure and discharge tanks, pressure indicators, 
and automatic governors, together with the hy- 
draulic engines of the well known horizontal mul- 
tiple geared type, and connected together with suit- 
able piping and valves, are located in the basement 
of the building. Two compound steam pumps of 
standard pattern, economizing the steam consump- 
tion, provide water under pressure for the regular 
elevator service. An interesting feature of these 
pumps is their automatic action or control by which 
steam is admitted and shut off in accordance with 
the requirements of the service. The variation of 
the pressure in the tanks below normal, acting upon 
the governors performs this function, and these in 
conjunction with the safety valves placed upon the 
discharge of each pump, appear to act as the watch 
dogs' of the system to prevent dangerous accumula- 
tion of pressure above normal in the pressure tanks. 
A high pressure pumping engine is also included, 
by which in pumping direct into one of the hy- 
draulic engines, heavy loads such as safes can be 
raised to any floor of the building. Two air pumps 
are installed in series, so that should it at any time 
be found necessary, the air under pressure can be 
supplied direct to the pressure tanks. The hydraulic 
engines placed upon a foundation of masonry are 
provided with an approved type of operating and 
independent automatic terminal stop valve, which 
together with buffers and the general massive con- 
struction of the engines, are well calculated to give 
efficient and reliable service. The pressure tanks 
from which the hydraulic engines take their supply 
of water under pressure while lifting the elevator 
cars are made of steel of substantial and approved 
construction. All wire ropes in use are of Roebling 
standard make. Each elevator car is connected to 
one of the hydraulic engines, exclusive of ropes used 
for counterbalancing, by four lifting ropes having 
a combined ultimate tensile strength of from 50 to 
72,000 pounds, from which it is apparent that dan- 
ger of accident from the parting of any rope is prac- 
tically eliminated, that the effect of destructive wear 
has been generously provided for and been reduced 
to a minimum. Each elevator car aside from the 
safety device upon the hydraulic engines already 
mentioned, is provided with two distinct types of 
safety devices to prevent accidents due to dangerous 
acceleration of car speed. A friction brake Is lo- 
cated under the platform, actuated by centrifugal 
governors located at the top of each hatchway, will 
stop the descending car without shock or jar, and 
without danger to any occupant In transit should 
the car from any cause have an accelerated and un- 

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CHARLES F. PARSONS 

safe velocity. Another safety device performing the 
same function consists of two groups of parts. One 
group is attached to the under side of the platforms, 
and another group of parts Is suspended on each side 
of the car from the top to the bottom of the hatch- 
way. The parts attached to the platforms include a 
set of oscillating dogs actuated by a governor. These 
dogs are designed to engage with the retarding plates 
forming a part of the second group suspended at 
each side of the car. The retarding plates are dis- 
tributed at various elevations in the hatchway and 
in the normal running of the elevator cars are out 
of reach of the engaging dogs; should the cars how- 
ever from any cause whatever exceed a prede- 
termined speed, the dogs are automatically actuated 
by their respective speed governors to engage the 
retarding plates, and in conjunction with same will 
bring the cars to a gradual and easy stop. 

The method of control directly in the hands of 
the elevator conductor is of the well known wheel 
type. This device gives the conductor direct and 
perfect control of the cars at the different floors, 
stopping and starting the cars In motion without 
any discomfort to the passengers in transit, and ab- 
solute control while passengers are admitted and 
discharged to and from the elevator. All the ele- 
vators are also provided with a complete annuncia- 
tor system so that a passenger may call an elevator 
to any floor desired. The elevators and all their 
appurtenances have been furnished and installed by 

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Morse Williams & Company of Philadelphia, a 
firm well known throughout the country for the 
high character of their products. In fact it is be- 
lieved that a better equipment could not have been 
provided. The installation representing a product 
of manufacture with factories giving employment to 
approximately five hundred hands, and located 
within the State, it constitutes a permanent exhibit 
of enterprise upon which the State of Pennsylvania 
and the manufacturers alike are to be congratulated. 
See Illustration on page i6. 



CHARLES F. PARSONS. 

Charles F. Parsons, who erected the stone work 
of the new State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., was 
born in London, England, April 4, 1869. He is a 
contractor for construction in stone. 

See Illustrations on pages 2 and 10. 



BUEHLER & LAUTER. 

Exterior Architectural Carving and Modeling 
and Casting. — Buehler & Lauter, New York City, 
did the following work at the Pennsylvania State 
Capitol: The exterior architectural carving; mod- 
eling and casting for interior plaster decoration; 
modeling for wood work ; modeling for marble carv- 
ing, and modeling for bronze standards and chande- 
liers in House and Senate. 

See Illustrations on pages 44 and 45. 



JOHN H. SANDERSON. 

Furniture, Electroliers, Carpets and Rugs — The 
beautiful carpets and rugs, the magnificent elec- 
troliers and the handsome and substantial furniture 
throughout the building were furnished by John 
H. Sanderson, Philadelphia. 

See Illustrations on pages 30, 39, 48. 



A. WILT & SONS. 



Interior Wood Work and Cabinet Work. — A. 
Wilt & Sons, Philadelphia, manufacturers and 
general woodworkers. Interior cabinet work for 
all kinds of buildings a specialty. This is the old- 
est firm in this line in Philadelphia. Business was 
established in 1844 by Thomas G. Cogill. In 1855 
Thomas G. Cogill and Alpheus Wilt formed the 
partnership of Cogill & Wilt. In 1864 the firm 
became A. Wilt and Son. In 1885 the firm became 
A. Wilt & Sons, and since the decease of Alpheus 

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JOHN F. WILT 

Wilt in 1896 the old firm name of A. Wilt & Sons 
has been continued. The individual members of the 
firm are John F. Wilt, born in 1840, Philadelphia; 
Chas. H. Wilt, born in 1847, Philadelphia; Elmer 
D. Wilt, born in 1856, Philadelphia. Have fur- 
nished the work for many notable buildings and 
dwellings in Philadelphia and vicinity, some of 
which are : Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. ; dwell- 
ings for E. Burgess Warren, Twentieth and Wal- 
nut streets, Philadelphia; Presbyterian Board of 
Publication Building, Philadelphia; Roman Catho- 
lic church and college buildings. Villa Nova, Pa. ; 
Drexel Building, Philadelphia; Roman Catholic 
Church of the Gesu and college buildings, Philadel- 
phia; Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of 
Mercy, Philadelphia; Arcade Office building, 
Philadelphia; Roman Catholic Church of St. 
Thomas, Philadelphia; Trinity College, Washing- 
ton, D. C. ; Perry building, Philadelphia ; Ma- 
jestic Apartment Hotel, Philadelphia, and St. An- 
drew's Protestant Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, 
Pa. The more recent, the new State Capitol build- 
ing, Harrisburg, Pa., including the fitting up of the 
House and Senate Chambers, the Supreme and Su- 
perior Court Rooms, the House and Senate Caucus 
Rooms, the Treasury Department Rooms, and 
many of the rooms of the Heads of Departments all 
in mahogany, also the Grand Executive Reception 
Room in English oak. 
See Illustrations on pages 28, 30, 38, and 48. 

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CONTENTS 



Addams, C P. 
ney General's 



A. 

, Law Clerk, Attor- 
Department, i4S 



T., 

N. 



141 
68 

135 

149 



149 



141 



145 



Adjutant General's Department, 64 

Adjutant General's Reception Room,.. 65 
Andrews, W. R., Chairman ReputiHcan 

State Committee, 129 

Attorney General's Private Office, 57 

Auditor General's Department, 58 

Auditor General's Private Office, 59 

B. 
Bailey, Edward, Treasurer New State 

Capitol Commission, i43 

Bair, R. C, Chief of Bureau of In- 
dustrial {Statistics, 

Banking Department, 

Barnett, J. E-, Former State Treasurer. 
Batt, W. R., State Registrar, Depart- 
ment of Health, 

Beates, Henry, Jr., M. D., President 
State Board Medical Examiners, . . 
Beidleman, E. E-. Member of Legisla- 
ture, 

Beitler, L- E-, Deputy Secretary of the 

Commonwealth, 

Bell, T. J., Chief Clerk, Department 

Public Printing and Binding 

Eeman, R. D., Assistant State High- 
way Commissioner, 149 

Berkey, J. A., Commissioner of Bank- 
ing, 139 

Berry, W. H., State Treasurer, 108 

Biddle, Cadwalader. General Agent and 
Secretary of the Board of Public 

Charities, 1 30 

Bolard, Jacob, State Senator, 119 

Breaking Ground for the New Capitol, 97 

Bronze Doors, 12 

Brown, C. L,., State Senator, 123 

Brown, I. B., Secretary of Internal Af- 
fairs, 139 

Brown, W. M., Lieutenant Governor,.. 106 
Buehler & Lauter, Architectural 
Carving, Modeling, and Casting, . . 159 

Building of the New Capitol, 53 

Building of the Old Capitol 33 

Burning of the Old Capitol, 50 

C. 

Capitals in Corridor, 37, 51, 81, 88 

Capitol Park, 8 

Carson, H. L,., Attorney General 107 

Cassel. H. B., Member of Congress, .. 118 

Catlin, S. R., State Senator, 120 

Ceiling of Dome, Rotunda, 20 

Ceiling, House of Representatives, ..44,45 
Chief of Department of Mines, Private 

Office, 73 

Cochran, J. H., State Senator, 115 



Creasy, W. 
Critch field, 
culture, 

Cummings, H. H. 



Member of Legislature, 
B., Secretary of Agri- 



Dairy and 
partment, 

Davies, G. 
General's 

Dedication 

Dedication 



State Senator, 

D. 
Food Commissioner's 



139 
122 



De- 



70 



H., Chief Clerk, Attorney 

Department, I49 

Day, October 4, 1906, .... loi 

Invitation, 99 



Dedication of the New Capitol, 87 

Deemer, EHas, Member of Congress, . 118 

Delaney, J. C, Factory Inspector, .... 139 
Department of Public Grounds and 

Buildings 77 

Department of Public Printing and 

Binding, 7^ 

Department of State Police, 79 

Deputy Secretary ot the Common- 
wealth, Private Office, 55 

Description of the New Capitol, 71 

Dewalt, A. G., State Senator, 136 

Dewey, E- C, Former Assistant Cash- 
ier, Treasury Department, 145 

Dixon, S. G., M. D., Commissioner of 

Health, 1 1 1 

Dome, Supreme Court Chamber, 29 

Dunsmore, A. B., Member of Legisla- 
ture, 131 

E. 

Electric Switchboards, 84, 87 

^levator, 16 

Elkin. J. P., Former Attorney General, 128 

Engines and Generators, S3 

Entrance to House of Representatives, 

Rotunda, ... 25 

Entresol Door, Rotunda, 26 

Eyre, T. L-, Former Superintendent of 

Public Grounds and Buildings, .... 136 



Glenn, A. D., Deputy Superintendent 

Public Instruction, I45 

Godcharles, F. A., State Senator, 129 

Governor's Private Office, 47 

Governor's Reception Room, 46 

Grand Staircase, 17 

Grand Staircase and Entresol, 18 

Graham, W. H., Member of Congress, 117 
Gray, N. D., First Assistant State Li- 
brarian, 147 

Greer, C. A., Bond Clerk, Treasury 

Department 143 

Griest, W. W-, Former Secretary of 

the Commonwealth, 129 

Groome, J. C, Superintendent of State 



Police, 
Gufifey, J. 
Western 
Insane, 



M., Member of Committee, 
Pennsylvania Hospital for 



114 



131 



Commissioner of Forestry, Library, . . 
Conklin, R. S., Commissioner of For- 
estry, 

Construction and Equipment, 

Cook, L- B., Member of Legislature,. 



71 



Factory Inspector's Private Office, .... 72 
Fahey, E- rl., Member of Legislature, 137 
Field's Sons, Chas. J., Hardware, .... 157 
Fish Commissioner's Department, .... 80 
Fisher Company, The Robert C-, In- 
terior Marble Work, 157 

Fleitz, F. W., Deputy Attorney Gen- 
eral, 115 

Flynn. J. M., Member of Legislature, 137 
Foerderer, R. H., Former Member of 

Congress, 1 32 

Fow, J. H., Member of Legislature, . . 125 

Fox, J. E., State Senator, 115, 143 

Fridy, S. M., Deputy Auditor General, 115 
Fulton. R. B., Assistant Cashier, 

Treasury Department, 147 

G. 

Garvin, T. H., Chief Clerk, House of 

Representatives, 126, 127 

George, W. J., Chief Clerk, Commis- 
sion of Soldiers' Orphan Schools,.. 145 



H. 

Hall, Frank, Deputy Chief, Depart- 
ment of Mines, 141 

Hall, J. K. P., State benator, 109 

liarrisburg Foundry and Machine 

Works, Engines, 156 

liarrisburg Made the Permanent Capi- 
tal, iS 

Hartzell, C. V., Chief Clerk, Factory 

Inspector, 147 

Ilause, N. E-, Chief Clerk, Auditor 

General's Department, 145 

Health Commissioner's Department, . . 74 
Health Commissioner's Private Office, 75 
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, The, 

Bronze Work, 152 

Hitchcock, A. B., Member of Legisla- 
ture, 127 

Houck, Henry, Secretary of Internal 

Affairs-Elect, 1 52 

House of Representatives, 38, 39, 40 

Howard, Josiah, Member of Legisla- 
ture, 124 

Huff, G. F., Member of Congress, . . 117 
Huff, L- B., Trustee State College. . . 131 
Hunter, J. W., State Highway Com- 
missioner, 112 

Huston, J. M., Architect of the State 

Capitol, 153 



I. 

Insurance Commissioner's Private Of- 
fice 67 

Insurance Department, 66 

Introduction, 4 

Irvin, E- A., State Senator, 131 

J- 
Johnson, F. C, M. D., Chief Medical 

Inspector, Department of Health, . 147 
Judd, F. A., Chief Clerk, Senate, .... 139 

K. 
Keen, G. S. J., Member of Legislature, 149 
Keim, G. C, Assistant Superintendent 

Public Grounds and Buildings, 145 

Keller-Pike Company, Power Plant and 

Electrical Equipment, 154 



Rlein, T. B., Deputy Secretary of In- 
ternal Affairs, 141 



Langham, J. K., Corporation Deputy, 
Auditor General's Department 147 

Lee, Benj., M. D., Assistant to Com- 
missioner of Health, 141 

Lewis, S. B., Assistant Architect of 
the estate Capitol. 154 

Lieutenant Governor's Private Office, . 53 

Lieutenant Governor's Reception 
Room, 52 

Lynch. T. J., Executive Clerk to the 
Governor, 143 

M. 
MacGregor & Bro., D. A., Interior Dec- 
orating, Painting and Glass, 157 

McAfee, Robert, Secretary of the 

Commonwealth, 106 

McClain, F. B., Member of Legisla- 
ture, 127 

McConkey, E. K., State Senator, ... 119 
McCulloch, S. \\'., Deputy Insurance 

Commissioner, 147 

McNrchol, J. P., State Senator, 122 

Main Balcony of Rotunda, 19 

Main Entrance and Dome, 10 

Main Entrance, Rotunda, 21 

Mantel in Governor's Reception Room, 48 
Martin, A. L-, Deputy Secretary of 

Agriculture, 141 

Martin, David, Insurance Commis- 
sioner, no 

Mathues, W. L-, Former State Treas- 
urer. 137 

Matson, Myron, State Senator 1:34 

Meals, E- S., Member of Legislature, 149 
Measey, B. F., Cashier Treasury De- 
partment, 141 

Meehan, W. E., Commissioner of 

Fisheries, 114 

Miller, H. P., Senate Librarian, 143 

Mme Inspectors, October 4. 1906, .. 146 
Mitchell. J. N., M. D., Secretary of 

Committee on Lunacy, 132 

Montgomery, T. L-, State Librarian. .. 113 
Morrison, J. VV., Deputy Commissioner 

of Banking, 143 

]\Iorse, Williams & Company, Elevators, 157 
Murphy, R. ti., Lieutenant Governor- 
Elect, 15J 

N. 
Neal, J. S., Chief Clerk State High- 
way Department, 149 

North Corridor, 21 



Pearce, T. S., Former Cashier State 

Treasury, 136 

Pearson, Leonard, B. S., V. M. D., 

State Veterinarian, 143 

Penn Construction Company, Steel Fix- 
tures and Furnishings, 156 

Pennsylvania's Early Capitol, 7 

Pennsylvania's First Permanent Capi- 
tol, 10 

Pennypacker, Samuel W., Governor of 

Pennsylvania, 104-105 

Penrose, Boies, United States Senator, 116 
Pitcairn, Robert, Member Western 

Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane,. . 128 
Pomeroy, A. N., Superintendent of 

Public Printing and Binding, 113 

Postoffice, House of Representatives, 41 

Proem, 5 

Public Reception Room, ij 

R. 
Rambo, S. B., Superintendent of Con- 
struction, 157 

Removal of the Capital to Harrisburg, 31 
Removal of Capital to Lancaster, .... 14 
Richardson, W. F., Lieut. -Col., 

Keeper of State Arsenal, 143 

Ripp, Samuel, Member of Legislature, 127 
Roderick, J. E-. Chiei of the Depart- 
ment of Mines, no 

Roosevelt, Theodore, President of the 
United States, 103 



O. 

Old State Capitol, 9 

Olmsted, M. E.. Member of Congress, 116 
Osborne, E. H., Member of Legisla- 
ture, 124 



Parsons, C. F., Granite Setting, 158-159 

Payne, G. F., Builder of the State 
Capitol, 155 



S. 

Sanderson, John H., Furniture, Elec- 
troliers, Carpets and Rugs, 159 

Schaeffer, N. C., Superintendent of 

Public Instruction, 108 

Schock, O. D., Assistant Dairy and 

Food Commissioner, 145 

Scott, J. M., State Senator, 128 

Sculptured Groups, 14-15 

Sculptured Ornaments over Entresol 

Door, Rotunda 27 

Secretary of Agriculture, Private Of- 
fice 69 

Secretary of the Commonwealth's De- 
partment 56 

Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pri- 
vate Office, 54 

Secretary of Internal Affairs, Pri- 
vate Office, 62 

Senate Caucus Room, 36 

Senate Chamber 30-31 

Senate Library, 35-89 

Shallenberger, W. S., Second Assistant 

Postmaster General, 135 

Sheatz, J. O., Member of Legislature, 126 
Shumaker, J. M., Superintendent of 

Public Grounds and Buildings, .... 112 
Snow, F. H., Chief Engineer, Depart- 
ment of Health, 147 

Snyder, C. A., Member of Legislature, 125 

Snyder, W. P., Auditor General, 107 

South Corridor, 22-24 

Sproul, W. C, State Senator, 121 

Standard in Governor's Reception 
Room, 50 



Standard in Senate Chamber, 34 

State Government, 1 38-1 40-142-144- 146-1 48 
State Highway Commissioner's Private 

Office, 76 

State Library and Museum, 95 

State Treasurer's Private Office, 61 

Stewart, T. J., Adjutant General, .... 109 

Stineman, J. C, State Senator, 120 

Stone. C. W.. Former Member of Con- 
gress, 133 

Stone, W. A., Former Governor of 

Pennsylvania, , . 133 

Stuart, Edwin S., Governor-Elect, .... 150 

Superintendent of Public Instruction,.. 6$ 

Supreme Court Chamber, 28 

Surface, H. A., State Zoologist, 141 

T. 
Thompson, A. A., Member of Legisla- 
ture, 126 

Thomson, O. E., State Senator, 137 

Thorn, G. D., Chief Clerk, Secretary 

of the Commonwealth, 139 

Tile Designs, 49-82-85-90-93 

Title Page, 3 

Treasury Department 60 

V. 

Van Ingen Windows. House of Repre- 
sentatives, 42-43 

Van Ingen Windows, Senate Cham- 
ber. 32-33 

Vare, G. A., State Senator, 129 

View Through the Trees, 11 

W. 

Wall, J. S., Chief Draftsman and Sur- 
veyor, Land Office Bureau, 145 

Walton. Henry F., Speaker of House 
of Representatives, 122-123 

Warne, O. S-, Chief Examiner, Insur- 
ance Department, 149 

Warren, B. H., M. D., Da>ry and Food 
Commissioner, 141 

Watres, L- A., Former Lieutenant 
Governor, 1 34 

Wetter. C. G., Builder of State 
Capitol 1 56 

Wharton, Bromley, Private Secretary 
to the Governor, 143 

White, S. P., State Senator, 121 

Whitworth, J. F., Corporation Clerk, 
Secretary of the Commonwealth, ... 139 

Wickersham, F. B., Member of Legis- 
lature, 149 

Williams, I. C, Deputy Commissioner 
of Forestry, 147 

Wilt, A., & Sons, Interior Wood Work 
and Cabinet Work, 159 

Wilt, J. F., 159 

Woodbury Granite Company, Granite 
Work, 153 

Woods, C. E-, State Senator, 125-139 

Woodside, J. W., President of Valley 
Forge Commission, 130 

Worden, J. H., President Board Game 
Commissioners, 147 

Y. 

Young, R. K., Auditor General Elect, 151 



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